US11102918B2
A filter design configured to operate in the medium voltage range of 1000 to 5000 volts, provides protection against Electromagnetic Pulse/High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP/HEMP) intentional electromagnetic interference pulses. The filter utilizes no oil filled components to preclude the catastrophic failures (explosions) during operation. Many of the components incorporated in the present design are suited to absorbing harmonics without failing. In addition to mitigating E1 and E2 pulses, the filter is resistant to line harmonics which have proved to cause filter failure in past designs. The filter provides EMP/HEMP conducted pulse protection for downstream electronics inside hardened shelters for medium and high voltage applications.
US11102915B1
Systems and methods disclose self-contained data center facility operations, management and build comprising, in the data center facility, installing a plurality of computer servers contained in a corresponding plurality of configurable rack mounted containers, a single or plurality of heat exchangers operatively coupled to the configurable rack mounted containers, and comprised in a thermal heat exchange system which further comprises a closed loop cooling unit. The closed loop cooling unit is caused to absorb heat from the single or plurality of heat exchangers. Additionally, systems and methods disclosed include power management functionality operatively coupled to control functionality, wherein the power management functionality is configured to assess a data center power requirement, and to draw and supply power based on the assessed requirement, and wherein the data center control unit is configured to calculate a data center environment, infrastructure and component condition, and based on the calculated condition, control the environment, infrastructure and component condition for optimal efficiency.
US11102909B2
An air duct that can be attached to existing grille of an electronic device to improve airflow and reduce overall system impedance/pressure drop without increasing the power to an air mover. The air duct has a wall configuration to smooth-out airflow while simultaneously delivering more airflow to selected portions of the interior of an electronic device, such as a server.
US11102895B2
Provided is an electrical junction box that enables suppression of entry of water even when the electrical junction box is installed in a vehicle in different orientations. Disclosed is an electrical junction box including a first case having an opening, a second case configured to cover the opening, and an accommodated component that includes a circuit assembly and is housed between the first case and the second case. The second case includes a peripheral wall formed by connecting a plurality of flat faces in a polygonal shape to cover an outer periphery of the first case adjacent to the opening. The first case includes water guard walls extending along at least two of the flat faces to cover a region not covered with the peripheral wall.
US11102892B2
A carbene-coated metal foil is produced by applying an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) compound to one or more surfaces of a metal foil (e.g., an electrodeposited copper foil having a surface that is smooth and non-oxidized). The NHC compound contains a matrix-reactive pendant group that includes at least one of a vinyl-, allyl-, acrylic-, methacrylic-, styrenic-, amine-, amide- and epoxy-containing moiety capable of reacting with a base polymer (e.g., a vinyl-containing resin such as a polyphenylene oxide/triallyl-isocyanurate (PPO/TAIC) composition). The NHC compound may be synthesized by, for example, reacting a halogenated imidazolium salt (e.g., 1,3-bis(4-bromo-2,6-dimethylphenyl)-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-3-ium chloride) and an organostannane having a vinyl-containing moiety (e.g., tributyl(vinyl)stannane) in the presence of a palladium catalyst. In some embodiments, an enhanced substrate for a printed circuit board (PCB) is produced by laminating the carbene-coated metal foil to a substrate that includes glass fiber impregnated with the base polymer.
US11102865B2
A lighting control circuit includes: a light-emitting element which includes a first terminal and a second terminal; a first shunt resistance element which is connected in parallel to the light-emitting element between the first terminal and the second terminal; and a control circuit which turns, into a conducting state, a first current path extending between the first terminal and the second terminal via the first shunt resistance element when a potential difference between the first terminal and the second terminal is greater than a first threshold value and turns, into a non-conducting state, the first current path when the potential difference is smaller than the first threshold value.
US11102855B2
A method of popping popcorn in a microwave includes operating an energy source to provide energy to a cooking chamber and detecting, by a microphone sensor, sound waves in the cooking chamber and providing an output signal indicative of the detected sound waves to a control unit. The control unit can determine that the output signal is indicative of a popping sound generated by popcorn kernels popping and control the energy source to stop providing energy to the cooking chamber based on the detected popping sounds.
US11102845B2
In an in-vehicle router, a narrow-range communication module (10A) is a device capable of wireless communication. A wide-range communication module is a device capable of wireless communication in the wider range than the narrow-range communication module. An Ethernet module is connected to an in-vehicle LAN in a vehicle so that communication is possible. A CPU controls the narrow-range communication module and the wide-range communication module and communicates with the in-vehicle LAN through the Ethernet module. The narrow-range communication module, the wide-range communication module, the Ethernet module, and the CPU are assembled to a housing, and the housing is provided to the vehicle.
US11102841B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein provide a method implemented in a User Equipment (UE). The method includes receiving, from a Mobility Management Entity (MME), a bearer resource modification reject message with a cause value, in response to a bearer resource modification request message sent to the MME. Further, the method includes deactivating an Evolved Packet System (EPS) bearer context information.
US11102829B2
A primary wireless communication device includes: an output assembly; a short-range communications assembly; a pairing controller configured to: send a discovery request for detection by a secondary wireless communication device; responsive to sending the discovery request, receive a discovery response from the secondary wireless communication device, the discovery response containing an identifier of the secondary wireless communication device and charge data for the secondary wireless communication device; control the output assembly to present the identifier of the secondary wireless communication device and a charge indicator for the secondary wireless communication device; obtain an instruction to establish a paired communication link with the secondary wireless communication device; and responsive to obtaining the instruction, initiate a pairing stage to establish the paired communication link.
US11102824B2
An operation method of a first communication node for transmitting a message in a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication network is provided. The method includes receiving information regarding a time period including a plurality of transmission slots from a second communication node and selecting one transmission slot included in the time period based on a first index configured based on the information regarding the time period. A message is transmitted through the one transmission slot and the information regarding the time period includes information regarding a number of the plurality of transmission slots included in the time period.
US11102822B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to communications in a network that supports data transmitted in an unlicensed frequency band and a licensed frequency band are provided. A first wireless communication device transmits in a first frequency band, a first system information signal indicating a first random access configuration for a second frequency band. The first wireless communication device transmits in a third frequency band, a second system information signal indicating a second random access configuration for the second frequency band. The first and third frequency bands are different frequency bands. Additionally, the first wireless communication device performs with a second wireless communication device, a random access procedure based on at least one of the first random access configuration or the second random access configuration.
US11102819B2
A joint low-band and high-band operation is disclosed for use in new radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) networks. In such networks, uplink and downlink communications may occur over separate bands, selected based on performance or quality characteristics. A user equipment (UE) may search each of one or both of a low-band spectrum and a high-band spectrum for system information signal that includes both a low-band random access configuration and a high-band random access configuration. The UE transmits a random access request on one of the bands and receives the random access response from one or more cells on the other band. The UE continues the random access procedure, transmitting the uplink message based on the random access response on the first band to a selected cell. The UE would then receive the contention resolution message from the selected cell on the second band.
US11102816B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a base station may configure a user equipment (UE) to transmit a first message in a set of transmission time intervals (TTIs) of a repetition window, and the base station may configure the same UE or a different UE to transmit a second message in a shortened TTI (sTTI). In such systems, if the base station schedules the transmission of the second message in an sTTI that coincides with at least one overlapping TTI in the set of TTIs of the repetition window, the UE may drop at least a portion of the transmission of the first message in the set of TTIs. Alternatively, the base station may avoid scheduling the uplink transmission of the second message in an sTTI that coincides with a TTI in the set of TTIs of the repetition window.
US11102809B2
In one embodiment, a method is performed by a wireless station. The method includes determining that a wireless network provides relay service. The wireless network includes an access point and one or more relay nodes. The method further includes transmitting a relay-service desirability indication to the access point. The method also includes receiving a relay-service confirmation from the access point. The wireless station is operable to transmit at a first station-transmission power level during a first time period and a second station-transmission power level during a second time period. The second station-transmission power level is a reduced station-transmission power level as compared to the first station-transmission power level. In addition, the method includes transmitting an uplink transmission at the second station-transmission power level responsive to the relay-service confirmation from the access point.
US11102807B2
A 5G new radio (NR) Base Station (gNB) is described. The gNB includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions stored in the memory are executable to receive one or more indications for data availability generated by an ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC)-based logical channel group (LCG) in a 5G NR buffer status report (BSR), a specific numerology-based LCG in a 5G NR BSR, or a URLLC operating in a specific numerology using a 5G NR BSR.
US11102805B2
Disclosed is a method for a terminal to receive downlink control information (DCI) in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method comprises: receiving information related to a mapping relation between a blind decoding candidate index and a redundancy version (RV) for DCI; detecting DCIs repeatedly transmitted in a plurality of blind decoding candidates; acquiring an RV value of the DCI on the basis of the information and the index of the blind decoding candidate in which the DCI has been detected, and acquiring data scheduling information included in the DCI on the basis of the RV value.
US11102804B2
There is disclosed a network node for a Radio Access Network, the network node (100) being adapted for communication utilising a carrier aggregation comprising at least a first carrier and a second carrier. The network node is adapted for transmitting first downlink control information on the first carrier of the carrier aggregation, and second downlink control information on the second carrier of the carrier aggregation, wherein the first downlink control information and the second downlink control information pertain to transmission on the same uplink carrier. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11102794B2
A base station (eNB) determines device-to-device (D2D) transmission parameters for signal transmission over a D2D communication link between a first user equipment (UE) device and a second UE device. The eNB instructs the first UE device to transmit a reference signal that is received by the second UE device. The second UE device reports D2D channel characteristic information indicative of the received reference signal. Based on the D2D channel characteristic information, the base station determines the D2D transmission parameters and provides the parameters to the first UE device.
US11102791B2
A method and system for establishing a Television Whitespace (TVWS) relay for public safety is presented. The method and system utilize a multi Radio Access Technology (multi-RAT) base station and a TVWS relay in communication with the multi-RAT base station. The TVWS relay provides a backhaul channel to an IP network in a public safety environment.
US11102790B2
A wireless device includes multiple RF chains, one or more processing modules, a switching circuit and a processor. The RF chains operate in multiple RF bands, and at least one RF chain is configurable to operate at a RF band selected from the RF bands. The processing modules are configurable to process signals communicated with the RF chains. The switching circuit routes signals between RF chains and processing modules in accordance with a routing plan. In response to an event that warrants reconfiguration, the processor re-allocates resources, including (i) allocating one or more RF chains to respective RF bands, (ii) allocating one or more processing modules to process signals associated with the RF bands, and (iii) setting the routing plan to route signals between pairs of RF chains and processing modules allocated to a common RF band. The processor communicates wirelessly with remote devices in accordance with the operational reconfiguration.
US11102773B2
Methods and systems for setting Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) timing for Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) with a pending PDSCH-to-HARQ-timing-indicator (PHTI) are provided. In one aspect, a method performed by a wireless device comprises: receiving a first Downlink Control Information (DCI) associated with a first Downlink (DL) data transmission, the first DCI comprising a non-numerical PHTI; receiving the first DL data transmission; determining a HARQ feedback for the first DL data transmission; receiving a second DCI associated with a second DL data transmission, the second DCI comprising a numerical PHTI indicating a location for HARQ feedback associated with the second DL data transmission; setting the location of HARQ feedback associated with the first DL data transmission to be the same as the location of HARQ feedback associated with the second DL data transmission; and transmitting the HARQ feedback associated with the first DL data transmission at the set location.
US11102767B2
The present application discloses an uplink data retransmission method and terminal. The method comprises: a terminal determining whether to spontaneously retransmit first uplink data; and if the terminal determines to spontaneously retransmit the first uplink data, the terminal retransmitting the first uplink data on a physical resource that is pre-configured on a network side. The application adopts the above technical solution to resolve the technical problem in which, for a URLLC service, if a retransmission mechanism is based on a conventional HARQ mechanism, a certain time interval is required between two adjacent transmissions of uplink data, which may result in retransmission being unsupported for a certain time delay requirement and configuration, and as a result a reliability requirement for the URLLC service cannot be met.
US11102763B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for multiplexing of uplink channels in a shared radio frequency spectrum band. Techniques may provide for segmenting uplink resources into multiple different sets of uplink resources, each set of uplink resources having one or more associated uplink control channel resources. A base station or user equipment (UE) may select a set of uplink resources from the multiple sets of uplink resources for uplink transmissions from the UE based on a location of the uplink control channel resources of the set of uplink resources relative to other allocated uplink resources of the UE. Uplink control information (UCI) may be multiplexed with one or more uplink shared channel transmissions of a UE for transmission to a base station in certain circumstances.
US11102759B2
A method of performing, by a user equipment (UE), wireless communication using a serving cell in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: starting a deactivation timer associated with the serving cell, the deactivation timer relating to a duration of time after which the serving cell is deactivated; determining whether there is an uplink (UL) grant or a downlink (DL) assignment for the serving cell in a time unit; based on a determination that there is an UL grant or a DL assignment, determining whether a data unit is transmitted on the UL grant or is received on the DL assignment; based on a determination that the data unit is transmitted on the UL grant or is received on the DL assignment: restarting the deactivation timer associated with the serving cell; and transmitting the data unit on the UL grant or receiving the data unit on the DL assignment.
US11102754B2
A method of paging a terminal, by a base station and via a relay node, wherein the terminal is configured to communicate with the base station via the relay node. The method comprises notifying the relay node of a paging identifier for identifying the terminal at least in paging messages; and the base station transmitting a paging message for the terminal. The paging message comprises the paging identifier; the paging message is transmitted at a paging time for a destination identifier; and the method further comprises the relay node monitoring the paging time for the destination identifier for paging messages comprising the paging identifier.
US11102752B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for reception of a paging message. One apparatus includes a processing unit and a transceiver that receives one or more paging occasion configurations in a system information block. The processing unit determines a paging frame and a paging occasion identity within the paging frame based on at least one of: a UE identity and a discontinuous reception cycle length and selects a paging occasion configuration from the received one or more paging occasion configurations, wherein the selected paging occasion configuration is associated with the determined paging occasion identity. The processing unit also determines a paging slot and a paging symbol within the determined paging slot based on the selected paging occasion configuration and decodes a physical downlink control channel (“PDCCH”) carrying paging downlink control information (“DCI”) on the determined paging symbol within the determined paging slot of the determined paging frame.
US11102751B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining paging occasion resources. One method includes determining a first control resource set for receiving system information. The method includes determining to use a second control resource set to determine a paging occasion. The first control resource set is the same as the second control resource set in response to not receiving information indicating to use a different control resource set than the first control resource set.
US11102745B2
A downlink synchronization method and apparatus, the method including receiving configuration information of a synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (PBCH) block and that is sent by a transmission reception point (TRP), where the configuration information of the synchronization signal and PBCH block includes at least one of location indication information or time cycle indication information, determining at least one of a location of the synchronization signal and PBCH block in a synchronization signal burst set according to the location indication information or a time cycle of a synchronization signal burst set according to the time cycle indication information, receiving the synchronization signal and PBCH block according to at least one of the location or the time cycle, and performing downlink synchronization according to the synchronization signal and PBCH block.
US11102739B2
For the purpose of properly controlling communication using a number of cells including cells that use different numerologies than existing LTE systems, a user terminal that communicates by using a number of cells including a first cell and a second cell has a receiving section that receives, from the first cell, information about synchronization between the first cell and the second cell and/or information about a configuration of a synchronization signal block in the second cell, and a control section that controls a processes for connecting with the second cell based on the information about synchronization and/or the information about the configuration of the synchronization signal block.
US11102735B2
Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of a base station in a wireless communication system can comprise the steps of: generating a first synchronization signal; confirming symbol index information on a plurality of symbols transmitted through beams in directions different from each other; and transmitting the first synchronization signal and the symbol index information in each of the plurality of symbols.
US11102733B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for delivering UE capability indication to a positioning server in a wireless communication network. A user equipment (UE) or evolved NodeB (eNB) may process and assign narrowband physical uplink shared channel (NPUSCH) resources based on a comparison between a measured narrowband reference signal received power (NRSRP) in a narrowband physical random access channel (NPRACH) transmission and at least one threshold value. Embodiments describe how to configure the NPUSCH transmission utilizing NPRACH procedure at very low receiving Signal-to Noise ratio (SNR) to alleviate negative impacts caused by less accurate NRSRP measurements and/or increased absolute power tolerance at very low receiving SNR scenarios. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11102731B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting a power headroom reporting in wireless communication system, the method comprising: generating a PHR MAC CE including PH information per BWP within a serving cell, in a state that the UE is configured with one or more BWPs per serving cell; and transmitting the PHR MAC CE, wherein the PHR MAC CE includes a BWP bitmap indicating presence of the PH information per BWP within the serving cell, wherein the BWP bitmap is present when the serving cell is activated. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.
US11102724B2
Various aspects related to various apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium are described herein. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to protect downlink (DL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform DL communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to communicate regarding uplink (UL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to an allocation vector. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to random access. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform UL communication(s). The written description and appended drawings provide detailed descriptions regarding these and many other aspects.
US11102723B2
A communication apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a first receiver which, in operation, receives a downlink data frame from a base station; a decoder which, in operation, decodes data included in the received downlink data frame; a signal generator which, when the decoded data indicates that there is no buffered traffic for the communication apparatus, generates an uplink frame that includes acknowledgement information and a wake-up radio (WUR) mode request indicating a request to transit to the WUR mode from a primary connectivity radio (PCR) mode; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the uplink frame to the base station.
US11102701B2
A method, a device and a system of controlling Bluetooth networking among physical devices are provided. The method includes: establishing a Bluetooth networking strategy list in advance, wherein the Bluetooth networking strategy list includes one or more Bluetooth networking strategies inputted or selected by a user in accordance with a pre-established correspondence relation between master and slave physical devices; receiving a Bluetooth-networking-strategy selection instruction; and transmitting a selected Bluetooth networking strategy in accordance with the Bluetooth-networking-strategy selection instruction to a network server, such that the Bluetooth networking strategy is forwarded by the network server to the master physical device, wherein the Bluetooth networking strategy is used to trigger the master physical device to adjust a Bluetooth networking relation between the master and the slave physical devices.
US11102700B2
A method can include receiving member information from first member devices at a first gateway UE in a device-to-device (D2D) LAN. The D2D LAN can include a first sub-LAN and at least one second sub-LAN. The first sub-LAN can include the first gateway UE and the first member devices. Each of the second sub-LANs can include a second gateway UE and a set of second member devices. The first and second gateway UEs can be connected with sidelinks. The member information can indicate a first DEVICE ID associated with the respective first member device. A first member device list including the first DEVICE IDs of the first member devices can be updated based on the received member information. A first mapping update message including the updated first member device list and a first gateway ID of the first gateway UE can be broadcast to the second gateway UEs.
US11102694B2
A network device such as an evolved NodeB (eNB) or next generation NodeB (gNB) can configure a set of user equipment (UE) to identify high speed train (HST) cell or high speed rail (HSR) dedicated longer term evolution (LTE) (HSDN) cells associated with a train or train station from a public LTE network. A UE can perform selection/reselection/handover operations to the HST LTE network cells with a higher priority based on various criteria, including a high mobility state of the UE, a marker, a cell ID, a measurement report comparison, or a location. Mobility state estimation of an HSDN cell can be based on a weight broadcast in a system information or system information block (SIB) of HSDN cell. A network load can further be considered in order to better serve high speed rail network conditions for users.
US11102690B2
A data sending method, a data receiving method, a data transmit end, and a data receive end are provided. The data sending method includes: obtaining a transmission path used for data transmission, where the transmission path currently uses a first physical link group to transmit data; switching, based on a preconfigured link switching policy and transmission information of the transmission path, a physical link used by the transmission path from the first physical link group to a second physical link group; sending a first link switching notification message to a data receive end, where the first link switching notification message includes information indicating that the physical link used by the transmission path is switched from the first physical link group to the second physical link group; and continuing transmitting the data through a transmission path that uses the second physical link group.
US11102688B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters comprising: first beam identifiers of a first plurality of beams; second beam identifiers of a second plurality of beams; and at least one measurement parameter indicating a measurement reporting event type. The measurement reporting event type is triggered based on a second combined reference signal measurement value of the second plurality of beams exceeding a first combined reference signal measurement value of the first plurality of beams by more than a first offset value. An occurrence of the measurement reporting event type is determined based on monitoring the first plurality of beams and the second plurality of beams. In response to the determination, a measurement report is transmitted. The measurement report comprises: the first combined reference signal measurement value of the first plurality of beams; and the second combined reference signal measurement value of the second plurality of beams.
US11102680B1
A wireless data transceiver includes a media access controller (MAC) that receives an inbound packet from an air interface and to buffer that packet for transport to a host, and receives an outbound packet and transfers that packet to the air interface. A host interface receives the inbound packet from the MAC and transfers the inbound packet to the host, and receives the outbound packet from the host for transfer to the MAC. Transport controller circuitry (TCC), including processing circuitry configured to execute instructions, manages the transceiver. Hardware data transport circuitry (HDTC) for transporting packets in either direction between the MAC and the host interface includes a buffer memory having a plurality of slots. The TCC or HDTC issues a start or stop signal to the host interface causing the HDTC and the host interface to begin or end transfer of data between the buffer memory and the host interface.
US11102679B2
A source proxy for transmitting one or more TCP packets sent from a source device to a destination device over a wireless link is provided. Each TCP packet comprises a TCP data section and a TCP packet header. The source proxy is located on the wireless link and is configured to: receive the one or more TCP packets; determine a simple compression mode packet from the one or more TCP packets by removing the TCP packet header comprised in each TCP packet, the simple compression mode packet comprising the TCP data sections comprised in the one or more TCP packets and a header that comprises a connection identifier, and send the simple compression mode packet to a destination proxy located on the wireless link, the destination proxy being configured to: receive the simple compression mode packet and acknowledge reception to the source proxy; determine one or more reconstructed TCP packets by extracting the data sections of each TCP packet from the simple compression mode packet, and send the one or more reconstructed TCP packets to the destination device.
US11102677B2
Methods and apparatuses for wireless communication are provided. The method includes: when a first terminal device and a second terminal device perform wireless communication via a first network device, the first terminal device measures link quality of a first link, the first link is a link between the first terminal device and the first network device; and the first terminal device performs a reporting process for reporting the link quality of the first link according to the link quality of the first link and a first code rate, the first code rate is determined according to a code rate applicable to the first terminal device, or determined according to a code rate applicable to the second terminal device.
US11102676B2
Various aspects described herein relate to techniques for managing downlink control information (DCI) in wireless communications (e.g., 5G NR). In an aspect, the method includes receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message, identifying a transport block size (TBS) based on the received RRC message, receiving DCI on a downlink channel with the DCI including a resource assignment, identifying a modulation order using a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) in an MCS field of the DCI, where the size of the MCS field is one bit or two bits, and calculating a coding rate based on at least the identified TBS, the identified modulation order and the resource assignment.
US11102670B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting lossless data packet based on QoS framework in wireless communication system, the method comprising: starting a timer for a first QoS flow when a DRB which is mapped to the first QoS flow is changed from a first DRB to a second DRB; delivering packets of the first QoS flow received from the first DRB to an upper layer while the timer is running; when the timer expires, starting to deliver the packets of the first QoS flow received from the second DRB while stopping the delivering packets of the first QoS flow received from the first DRB.
US11102665B2
This disclosure describes techniques for identifying and mitigating a voltage loss in a power transmission to a Remote Radio Unit (RRU) associated with Radio Frequency (RF) antennas of a telecommunications network. More particularly, a Supplemental Voltage (SV) controller is described that is configured to monitor and detect a change in voltage that occurs during a power transmission from a primary Direct Current (DC) power source to the RRU and selectively cause a supplemental DC power source to transmit a supplemental voltage to the RF antennas. The SV controller may cause a supplemental DC power source to transmit a supplemental voltage to the RRU based on an empirical data analysis, sensory data analysis, or current environmental metadata. Further, the SV controller may determine whether the primary DC power source has suddenly ceased transmitting power to the RRU, and in doing so, cease transmission of a supplemental voltage to the RRU.
US11102660B2
A method for determining placement of a wireless, mesh network extender, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a connection with a wireless mesh network comprising a Central Access Point; building (401) a list of points of measurement of signal quality of said wireless, mesh network; outputting (403) a suggestion as to the placement of a new Mesh Access Point on a calculation of potential signal quality derived from said list (401).
US11102659B2
A method, device, and system for receiving a downlink signal is provided. The method includes: detecting a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) in a time unit #n on an unlicensed band cell; verifying whether the CSI-RS is used for Discovery RS (DRS) using an initialization value of a CSI-RS sequence of the CSI-RS; and performing a Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurement when the CSI-RS is used for the DRS. The CSI-RS is used for the DRS when an index of the time unit #n is not used for the initialization value of the CSI-RS sequence.
US11102657B2
A method and apparatus for deploying Base Stations/Access Points (BS/APs) in an enterprise wireless communications network. The method is useful to deploy BS/APs in a managed radio communication environment to mitigate and prevent interference between competing transmitters in the area. The BS/APs may comprise Citizens Broadband radio Service Devices (CBSDs) deployed in 4G and 5G enterprise communications networks operating under FCC rules relating to Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS). Spectrum may be managed by a Spectrum Management Entity (SME). In order to pre-register BS/APs prior to deployment, location coordinates corresponding to an enterprise address may be used. A domain proxy (DP) may request registration, obtain a spectrum grant, and maintain the grant. After installation of the BS/APs, the spectrum grant is used to make Radio Environment Monitoring (REM) measurements and determine an RF environment, which is then used to mitigate interference in the enterprise network by assigning optimized channels to each BS/AP for operation.
US11102651B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for data transmission, comprising: authenticating, by a target node in a battery management system, a source node in response to a request for data transmission from the source node; selecting, by the target node, any two prime numbers from a pre-stored set of prime numbers if the authentication is passed, generating a public key and a private key according to the two prime numbers, and transmitting the public key to the source node; performing, by the source node, a first encryption byte-by-byte for source data to be transmitted using the public key, performing a second encryption for the first encrypted data using a first encryption algorithm stored by the source node itself, and transmitting the second encrypted data to the target node.
US11102648B2
Within a mobile device, a method and system to produce a probability the mobile device is in possession of a known person, the first user. Sensors are used to detect and quantify the behavioral biometrics of the human traits of the person in possession of the device. On a continuous basis, a machine learning process collects the biometrics of several traits of the first user memorizing the artifacts of neural networks used for learning. Subsequently, a prediction neural network provisioned with these artifacts and processing new biometric inputs of the present user of the device produces a probability the present user of the device is the first user. Affirmation of identity can then be made based on that probability.
US11102647B2
A method for establishing a data connection between a mobile terminal and a server includes sending a request for data connection to the server, generating a random password, transmitting the random password to the server for storing in the server, establishing the data connection between the mobile terminal and the server, and encrypting data to be transmitted through the communication connection using the random password.
US11102644B2
The disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for network configuration. The method includes: sending an acquisition request to a second device, in response to determining that a first device requires network configuration; receiving network configuration information sent by the second device according to the acquisition request, the network configuration information including network configuration information of one or more wireless networks to which the second device had been connected; and configuring, based on the network configuration information, a wireless network accessible by the first device.
US11102641B2
The present disclosure provides a SIM card status determination method and a SIM card status determination device, the SIM card status determination method includes: acquiring feature data of a SIM card of a terminal device, determining a use status of the SIM card according to the feature data and a preset recognition model, sending a SIM card releasing request to the terminal device to cause the terminal device to release the SIM card if the use status is determined as idle, acquiring SIM card using request data which is sent by the terminal device after the SIM card is released, and optimizing the preset recognition model according to the SIM card using request data, thereby determining the use status of the SIM card using optimized recognition model.
US11102631B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a resource selection or reselection method by a user equipment (UE) and the UE in Vehicle to vehicle/pedestrian/infrastructure/network (V2X) communication. The method comprises the steps of: detecting physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) transmitted by other UE(s); selecting (a) single-subframe resource(s) from single-subframe resources which do not overlap with single-subframe resources reserved by the detected PSCCH; and transmitting physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) on the selected single-subframe resource(s).
US11102623B2
The present invention relates to a system for rerouting independent traffic on the networks of the mobile telephony operators, such as the GSM network, as well as the use of methods for user authentication and activation, traffic control and user access on a 3G-traffic rerouting Wi-Fi network. The rerouting Wi-Fi network proposed is independent of the mobile telephony network operators and enables the data traffic rerouting service to be provided to users of several operators simultaneously. The system includes its own database containing user information, obviating the need to consult operator databases. The system proposed also enables a user of operator A to purchase a Wi-Fi data plan from operator B using the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) authentication of operator A, thereby obviating the need to replace the SIM card. Access to roaming users, i.e. users outside their native numbering area, is also permitted.
US11102617B2
This application discloses systems, devices, and methods for indoor navigation and tracking with a mesh network. In one aspect, a navigation device includes a receiver configured to receive a locational signal from a node network. The locational signal identifies a respective node of the node network, and the node network is distributed throughout a physical space. The navigation device includes a memory storing a program and a processor in communication with the receiver and configured to execute the program to calculate a position of the navigation device from the identity of the respective node, determine a routing instruction from the position of the navigation device to a destination based on the position of the navigation device and a known mapping of the node network in the physical space, and update the position of the navigation device and the routing instruction as the navigation device moves through the physical space.
US11102611B2
In an example implementation, a method of tracking a mobile device includes determining by a tracked device, that a pairing status between the tracked device and a command device has changed from a paired status to an unpaired status. A timer is started on the tracked device in response to determining the unpaired status, and in response to the timer reaching a threshold time, a distress packet is transmitted from the tracked device that indicates the tracked device is lost.
US11102608B2
Systems and methods of providing a user interface in which map features associated with places are selectively highlighted are disclosed herein. In some example embodiments, a computer system receives a request for a transportation service associated with a place, retrieves an entrance geographic location for the place from a database, with the entrance geographic location being stored in association with the place in the database and representing an entrance for accessing the place, generating route information based on the retrieved entrance geographic location, with the route information indicating a route from an origin geographic location of a computing device of a user to the entrance geographic location of the place, and causing the generated route information to be displayed within a user interface on a computing device of the user.
US11102607B2
Enhancements of and to cell phone operations are based in whole or in part on determining the location of the cell phone. Systems and methods select and determine locations or areas of importance or relevance, and based on that information and other programmed factors affect or alter the operations of the cell phone. While the systems and methods are illustrated by use of cell phone embodiments and applications, they are equally applicable to virtually any portable or mobile communication device, including for example, wireless laptop computers and PDAs.
US11102606B1
A visual component is added to a 3D audio stream to present on a display at the player side a visual representation of objects in the 3D audio, enabling the user to better understand what is happening in the 3D audio experience. The visual representation may include visual objects with the same location and movement in 3D space as audio objects being played.
US11102600B2
An apparatus includes a receiver and an up-mixer. The receiver is configured to receive a bitstream that includes an encoded mid signal and encoded stereo parameter information. The encoded stereo parameter information represents a first value of a stereo parameter and a second value of the stereo parameter. The first value is associated with a first frequency range. The second value is associated with a second frequency range that is distinct from the first frequency range. The up-mixer is configured to perform an up-mix operation on a frequency-domain decoded mid signal generated from the encoded mid signal. A particular value based on the first value and the second value is applied to the frequency-domain decoded mid signal during the up-mix operation.
US11102597B2
A playback device includes a playback function unit, a data signal monitoring unit configured to output a data change trigger signal based on a change in the data signal, a clock signal monitoring unit configured to output a clock change trigger signal based on a change in the clock signal, an enable signal monitoring unit configured to output an enabled/disabled state signal that indicates a disabled or enabled state of the enable signal, and a determining unit configured to determine whether the data signal, the clock signal, or the enable signal is properly inputted into the playback function unit or not, based on the data change trigger signal, the clock change trigger signal, and the enabled/disabled state signal.
US11102595B2
An audiovisual conferencing system provides a centrally controlled system for managing and broadcasting the audiovisual data sent from a group of members using their own personal devices. In an exemplar embodiment, a moderator controls requests from various participant members to broadcast audio or video from their personal mobile device to the other group members. In various embodiments, the moderator has the capability to manage the member requests to broadcast social media or registered user profile information about the member or other textual or graphic information originating from or about the group member. In various embodiments, the audio and video broadcasts from group members, the member requests to broadcast and the set or queue of member requests to broadcast, which may be prioritized or otherwise organized by the moderator, are hosted in the cloud or Internet.
US11102594B2
The present invention is directed to a hearing aid which includes a lateral ear canal assembly and a medial ear canal assembly. In embodiments of the invention the medial ear canal assembly may include smart circuitry adapted to control parameters and outputs of the medial ear canal assembly. In embodiments of the invention various methods and circuitry are described, wherein the methods and circuitry are adapted to improve the performance and efficiency of the hearing aid.
US11102588B2
A portable airtight electronic component dryer device includes a container having an interior portion for receiving one or more electronic components for drying and a removable lid for the container. A desiccant is disposed in the interior portion of the container. The removable lid contains a disinfecting light source and a power source for providing power to the disinfecting light source. Light generated by the disinfecting light source is directed into the interior portion of the container.
US11102585B2
One embodiment provides a slim acoustic transducer with a diaphragm including a hole that is substantially centered on a vertical axis of the diaphragm. The hole has a first horizontal width. A voice coil has a ring shape that is disposed at least partially within the hole and substantially centered on the vertical axis. The ring shape has an outer and inner horizontal width. The outer horizontal width is smaller than or equal to the first horizontal width of the hole. A column structure is disposed at least partially within the ring shape and substantially centered on the vertical axis. The column structure has a second horizontal width that is smaller than or equal to the inner horizontal width of the ring shape. The column structure includes an upper magnet, a middle plate disposed below the upper magnet and a lower magnet disposed below the middle plate.
US11102584B1
Disclosed is a speaker unit for an earphone. The speaker unit includes a magnet, a voice coil, a vibration plate, a fixing ring on which an edge of the vibration plate is mounted, and a frame configured to accommodate the magnet, the upper plate, and the voice coil. Here, a pipe conduit is formed in the frame along a circumferential direction. A first hole configured to allow the pipe conduit and a first space disposed in front of the speaker unit to communicate with each other is formed in at least one first position at a top of the frame in a circumferential direction. A second hole configured to allow the pipe conduit and a second space disposed in the rear of the speaker unit to communicate with each other is formed in at lest one second position at a bottom of the frame in a circumferential direction.
US11102582B2
The invention relates to audio transducers, such as loudspeaker, microphones and the like, and includes improvements in or relating to hinge systems for rotational action audio transducers. The hinge systems of the invention being configured to operatively support a diaphragm in use, and comprising a hinge assembly having one or more hinge joints, wherein each hinge joint comprises a hinge element and a contact member. The contact member comprises a contact surface and the configuration is such that during operation each hinge joint is configured to allow the hinge element to move relative to the associated contact member, while maintaining a substantially consistent physical contact with the contact surface. The hinge assembly biases the hinge element towards the contact surface. Preferably the hinge assembly is configured to apply a biasing force to the hinge element of each joint toward the associated contact surface, compliantly. Various applications and implementations are described and envisaged for the audio transducer embodiments including, for example, personal audio devices such as headphones, earphones and the like.
US11102578B1
An audio system and method of using the audio system to augment spatial audio rendition is described. The audio system can include a device to receive user inputs designating positions on an augmented reality view of a listening environment. Sound source icons can be presented in the augmented reality view at the designated positions. The sound source icons can visually represent sound sources at locations in the listening environment that correspond to, but are different than, the positions. One or more processors of the audio system can apply head-related transfer functions, which correspond to the locations in the listening environment, to audio input signals to generate binaural audio signals. The audio system can include a headset that uses the binaural audio signals to render spatialized audio localizing sounds to the locations in the listening environment. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US11102577B2
A method for conveying to a listener a directionality-preserving pseudo low frequency psycho-acoustic sensation of a multichannel sound signal, including: deriving from the sound signal, by a processing unit, a high frequency multichannel signal and a low frequency multichannel signal, generating a multichannel harmonic signal, the loudness of at least one channel signal of the multichannel harmonic signal substantially matching the loudness of a corresponding channel in the low frequency multichannel signal; and at least one interaural level difference (ILD) of at least one frequency of the at least one channel pair of the multichannel harmonic signal substantially matching an ILD of a corresponding fundamental frequency in a corresponding channel pair in the low frequency multichannel signal; and summing the harmonic multichannel signal and the high frequency multichannel signal thereby giving rise to a psychoacoustic alternative signal.
US11102570B2
The present disclosure is directed to devices and systems for auto configuration of directional sound. The system comprises: a first and second portable bass loudspeaker, each arranged to radiate sound waves responsive to audio signals. Each portable bass loudspeaker has a sensor for determining whether the portable bass loudspeaker is in an aligned state or non-aligned state, wherein in the aligned state, the first portable bass loudspeaker is oriented in a generally parallel and opposite direction relative to the second portable bass loudspeaker. Each portable bass loudspeaker has an equalization device providing a first equalization setting for outputting audio in response to detection of the aligned state, and a second equalization setting for outputting audio in response to detection of the non-aligned state, wherein the first equalization setting is configured to generate a radiating output from the first and second portable bass loudspeaker in a cardioid pattern.
US11102566B2
A case for a pair of earbuds including a housing having first and second cavities formed within the housing, the first cavity configured to receive a first earbud in the pair of earbuds and the second cavity configured to receive a second earbud in the pair of earbuds; a lid attached to the housing; a first pair of electrodes positioned within the housing adjacent to the first cavity; a second pair of electrodes positioned within the housing adjacent to the second cavity; and charging circuitry coupled to the first and second pairs of electrodes, the charging circuitry including a high frequency inverter configured to receive a DC power signal and output a high frequency AC signal to each of the first and second pairs of electrodes.
US11102563B2
Embodiments describe an attachment mechanism including a wire bent in various directions forming a spring compressible in lateral directions. The wire includes a first wireform feature and a second wireform feature extending from the first wireform feature, where the first wireform feature and the second wireform feature each include: an intermediate segment; a u-shaped segment extending from the intermediate segment; and an end segment extending from the u-shaped segment.
US11102553B2
Systems and methods for providing multimedia content from one process or component to another process or component over an unsecured connection are provided. One embodiment includes obtaining the cryptographic information, extracting the at least partially encrypted video data from the container file to create an elementary bitstream, enciphering the cryptographic information, inserting the cryptographic information in the elementary bitstream, providing the elementary bitstream to a video decoder, extracting the cryptographic information from the elementary bitstream at the video decoder, deciphering the cryptographic information, decrypting the elementary bitstream with the cryptographic information and decoding the elementary bitstream for rendering on a display device using the video decoder.
US11102549B2
A method of providing a video program with overlay content. The method includes receiving a video program and transcoding the received video program into a plurality of segments, by the processor, each segment representing a different period of the video program. In response to receiving an instruction to add overlay content to the video program, a subset of the segments of the video program to which the overlay content is to be added is selected. Overlay content is added to the selected segments and the segments of the video program to which overlay content was added, together with the segments of the video program that were not selected are transmitted to a receiver.
US11102546B1
Systems and methods for obtaining and playing video advertisements in conjunction with play of video content use information about the viewability of an instantiation of a video player software application. An instantiation of the video player software application generates a viewability score which is intended to reflect a degree of confidence that the instantiation of the video player software application is located on a part of a webpage that currently appears on a user's display screen. Information used to generate the viewability score can be gathered during play of a video. The information used to generate a viewability score can include information about user performed actions and information that indicates the degree to which the user is engaged by a video.
US11102539B2
A media stream receiver is provided for scalable physical layer flow of packetized media streams. The media stream receiver replicates the processing block in time, rather than in hardware, through the use of a single shared memory and pointer alignment calculations, which combines multiple buffering stages as the single, shared memory buffer to offer redundancy and alignment, while acting as a receiver buffer to account for packet delay variations. By doing so the media stream receiver can perform a vertical interval switch between received media streams.
US11102538B2
A slave relay station is adapted to serve and/or host pages comprising a simplified graphic user interface (GUI) encoded in a widely recognized format such as, for example, HTML or WML. The GUI embodies activatable links corresponding to control functions for configured appliances. A wireless phone or other device with network access and the capability to process and present such pages, for example via a Web browser, may then be utilized to effect control of such appliances by simply navigating to the network address of the slave relay station, obtaining an appropriate GUI page, and interacting with the links.
US11102535B1
Techniques are described for adjusting parameter settings for bitrate selection algorithms for different segments of a population of devices streaming content. Streaming sessions are identified according to session characteristics. Within each segment of sessions, control parameter settings are sent to devices corresponding to a subset of each segment. Test parameter settings are sent to devices corresponding to another subset of each segment. If the test parameter settings result in better playback performance relative to the control parameter settings, the test parameter settings become the new control parameter settings, and new test parameter settings are generated.
US11102530B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory, machine-readable media to facilitate adaptive processing and content control are disclosed. Content composites may be created and configured according to a computational model that may include a hierarchical ordering of the content composites using a hierarchical data structure. The configured content composites may be presented with a graphical user interface of an endpoint device. Metrics of interactions with interface elements corresponding to the configured content composites may be determined using a processing device that monitors inputs. The computational model may be automatically trained using the metrics of interactions to create an adapted computational model. Adapted content composites may be created and configured according to the adapted computational model that may include a second hierarchical ordering using a second hierarchical data structure. The adapted content composites may be presented with the graphical user interface.
US11102517B2
An apparatus for decoding video data receives a bitstream including a coding tree unit (CTU) of encoded video data and split information related to the CTU of the video data, determines a coding block to be decoded, determines a prediction partition mode for the coding block corresponding to the leaf node of the tree split structure among a plurality of prediction partition modes using mode type information included in the bitstream, the plurality of prediction partition modes including at least one prediction partition mode allowing the coding block to be predicted by being split into two equal-sized triangles of the same size, and decodes the coding block corresponding to the leaf node according to the determined prediction partition mode.
US11102513B2
A method of partitioning a coding unit (CU) into one or more transform units (TUs) for encoding a video sequence using at least one processor includes determining a height of the CU; determining a width of the CU; determining a TU size of each of the one or more TUs based on the height of the CU and the width of the CU; determining one or more TU positions of the one or more TUs based on the height of the CU and the width of the CU; and partitioning the CU into the one or more TUs based on the determined size of the one or more TUs and the one or more positions of the one or more TUs.
US11102509B2
The present invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise configuring an MPM list based on intra-prediction modes of neighbor blocks of a current block and a number of frequencies of the intra-prediction modes of the neighbor blocks, deriving an intra-prediction mode of the current block based on the MPM list, and performing intra-prediction for the current block based on the intra-prediction mode.
US11102500B2
A method for tracking a reference picture on an electronic device is described. The method includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes decoding a portion of the bitstream to produce a decoded reference picture. The method further includes tracking the decoded reference picture in a decoded picture buffer (DPB) with reduced overhead referencing. The method additionally includes decoding a picture based on the decoded reference picture.
US11102496B2
Approaches for encoding or decoding when switching color spaces involve signaling of control information for adaptive color space transformation (“ACT”). For example, an encoder encodes a unit of video to produce encoded data. As part of the encoding, the encoder evaluates a condition for the unit and conditionally signals a syntax element that indicates whether ACT is enabled within the unit. The encoder outputs the encoded data as part of a bitstream. A corresponding decoder receives encoded data as part of a bitstream. The decoder decodes the encoded data to reconstruct a unit of video. As part of the decoding, the decoder evaluates a condition for the unit and conditionally parses a syntax element that indicates whether ACT is enabled within the unit. The syntax element is parsed if the condition is satisfied, but otherwise the parsing of the syntax element is skipped.
US11102493B2
A single source image encoder encodes more than one display stream, such as multiple display streams each for a different display or multiple display streams for the same display, using multiple indexed color history (ICH) buffers. As applied to a DSC encoder, the same DSC encoder is used to encode more than one DSC compliant display stream. Multiple encoded display bitstreams are output as multiple display data streams to a plurality of displays. Such a configuration can significantly reduce the area cost of an integrated circuit that employs an image encoder since additional encoders are eliminated.
US11102477B2
A sign value of a DC coefficient of a current block is determined using neighbor blocks of the current block. First and second sign values are identified as respectively corresponding to an above neighbor block of the current block and a left neighbor block of the current block. A context value is calculated by applying a first weighting value to the first sign value and a second weighting value to the second sign value. The first weighting value is based on a boundary between the above neighbor block and the current block, and the second weighting value is based on a boundary between the left neighbor block and the current block. A probability value is selected based on the context value. The sign value of the DC coefficient of the current block is then determined using the probability model.
US11102476B2
A device for processing video data includes a memory configured to store video data and one or more processors implemented in circuitry. The one or more processors are configured to select two or more subblocks of one or more blocks of video data and generate an affine motion model for a current block of video data using a subblock motion vector from each of the two or more subblocks as control-point motion vectors for the current block. The one or more processors are further configured to determine one or more prediction blocks based on the affine motion model and predict the current block with the one or more prediction blocks.
US11102474B2
Devices and methods for intra prediction video coding based on a plurality of reference pixel values
Pixel values of a current video coding block are intra predicted on the basis of a plurality of reference pixel values. A pixel value of a current pixel is intra predicted on the basis of: a first reference pixel value, wherein the first reference pixel is located in a first neighboring video coding block, a second reference pixel value, wherein the second reference pixel is located in a second neighboring video coding block, a distance between the current pixel and the first reference pixel, and a distance between the current pixel and the second reference pixel.
US11102465B2
First visual information defining first spherical visual content, second visual information defining second spherical visual content, and/or other information may be obtained. Presentation of the first spherical visual content on a display may be effectuated. A spherical transition between the first spherical visual content and the second spherical visual content may be identified. The spherical transition may define a change in presentation of visual content on the display from the first spherical visual content to the second spherical visual content based on a transitional motion within a spherical space and/or other information. A change in presentation of the first spherical visual content on the display to presentation of the second visual content on the display may be effectuated based on the spherical transition and/or other information. The change may be determined based on the transition motion within the spherical space and/or other information.
US11102456B2
A camera generates a first video having visibility lower than a predetermined visibility suitable for a process using a video in a video output apparatus, encodes the generated first video, and transmits the encoded first video, and an adjustment instruction including a parameter for adjusting the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility, to the video output apparatus. The video output apparatus acquires the first video and the adjustment instruction, transmitted from the camera, adjusts the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility by using the parameter, based on the adjustment instruction, and outputs the adjusted video to an output unit.
US11102452B1
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for generating visual representations for use in audio conversations. For example, a method comprises receiving user information associated with a first user; receiving visual representation information input by the first user, wherein the visual representation information comprises a first feature, wherein the visual representation information further comprises a second feature distinct from the first feature, wherein the first feature comprises a facial feature; generating a visual representation based on the visual representation information, wherein the visual representation is presented to a second user during an audio conversation between the first user and a second user, wherein at least one of the first feature or second feature changes form when the first user speaks during the audio conversation, and wherein both the first feature and the second feature remain static when the second user speaks during the audio conversation.
US11102443B2
Provided is a tuner module including: a casing body adapted to house a tuner module board on which a tuner function unit is formed; and at least one antenna connector fixed to the casing body and having a terminal portion of a center electrode connected to the tuner module board, in which the casing body includes a plate-like portion formed with a hole portion into which a screw member is inserted, and a plurality of protrusions is provided apart from each other at a peripheral portion of the hole portion.
US11102442B2
An electronic device includes a signal processor, a substrate, and a conductive housing. The signal processor includes an oscillator that outputs oscillation signal. The substrate has a ground component, the signal processor being disposed on the substrate. The conductive housing is connected to a first site of the ground component and to a second site that is different from the first site. The first site and the second site are disposed at positions where a first area of the housing that is an odd-numbered multiple of ¼ wavelength of the oscillation signal away from the first site overlaps at least part of a second area of the housing that is a multiple of ¼ wavelength of the oscillation signal away from the second site.
US11102439B2
There is provided an image sensor employing an avalanche diode. The image sensor includes a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, a plurality of pulling circuits and a global current source circuit. Each of the plurality of pixel circuits includes a single photon avalanche diode and four P-type or N-type transistors. Each of the plurality of pulling circuits is arranged corresponding to one pixel circuit column. The global current source circuit is used to form a current mirror with each of the plurality of pulling circuits.
US11102434B2
There is provided a solid-state imaging element in which a first substrate in which a pixel circuit including a pixel array unit is formed and a second substrate in which a plurality of signal processing circuits are formed are laminated, and a common reference clock is supplied to the plurality of signal processing circuits that are formed on the second substrate.
US11102431B2
An image sensor which relates to a technology for estimating crosstalk of each pixel is disclosed. The image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of unit test patterns, each of which is used to measure values of crosstalk components of a plurality of light blocking pixels generated by a single open pixel, the light blocking pixels and the single open pixel included in the unit test pattern, a storage circuit configured to store the measured values of the respective unit test patterns, a calculation circuit configured to calculate a crosstalk value about each target pixel included in the pixel array by combining the stored values, and a correction circuit configured to correct pixel data of the target pixel by reflecting the calculated crosstalk value in the pixel data.
US11102425B2
Visibility of a description on a description field hidden by a presenter is to be ensured while maintaining a positional relationship between the presenter and the description on the description field. The moving image data obtained by imaging a state where the presenter is giving the description onto the description field is processed to determine the description portion. Display data for displaying each of portions determined to be the description portion as a description is generated and superimposed on moving image data. For example, a difference value for each of pixels between a current frame image and a reference frame image is extracted, a group including a series of consecutive pixels having a difference value being a threshold or more is grasped and then, whether or not the group is a description portion is determined for each of the groups.
US11102418B2
The present invention relates to a sensor for capturing an image and a method for controlling the same. An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises an image sensor and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to receive a signal for capturing a moving image and to acquire a first plurality of image frames according to a first frame rate through the image sensor in response to the signal, the first image frames comprising a first image frame and a second image frame corresponding to an external object. The acquiring operation comprises an operation of generating a first part of a moving image according to a second frame rate, which is lower than the first frame rate, using some image frames among the first plurality of image frames. The one or more processors may be configured to determine a change related to the external object at least on the basis of a brightness difference between a first brightness corresponding to the first image frame and a second brightness corresponding to the second image frame, to acquire a second plurality of image frames corresponding to the external object, when the change satisfies a predesignated condition, through the image sensor according to the first frame rate or a third frame rate that is different from the first frame rate, and to generate a second part of the moving image using one or more image frames among the second plurality of image frames.
US11102417B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method, apparatus and video monitoring device for capturing a target object. The method comprises detecting target objects in current panoramic video frame acquired by panoramic camera, and determining first position information, size, moving direction, and speed information of each target object in the current panoramic video frame; calculating position information for capturing of each target object; determining detail camera position information corresponding to each target object and determining a magnification corresponding to each target object according to size thereof; and determining a tracking duration for each target object, and controlling, for each target object, the detail camera to adjust its position and magnification according to the detail camera position information and magnification corresponding to the target object, and controlling the adjusted detail camera to capture the target object within the tracking duration for the target object. Embodiments of the present application can improve the quality of capturing of a target object while ensuring the monitoring range.
US11102414B2
An electronic device has multiple cameras and displays a digital viewfinder user interface for previewing visual information provided by the cameras. The multiple cameras may have different properties such as focal lengths. When a single digital viewfinder is provided, the user interface allows zooming over a zoom range that includes the respective zoom ranges of both cameras. The zoom setting to determine which camera provides visual information to the viewfinder and which camera is used to capture visual information. The user interface also allows the simultaneous display of content provided by different cameras at the same time. When two digital viewfinders are provided, the user interface allows zooming, freezing, and panning of one digital viewfinder independently of the other. The device allows storing of a composite images and/or videos using both digital viewfinders and corresponding cameras.
US11102411B2
A gimbal photographing method includes obtaining an external signal, processing the external signal to generate one or more gimbal action control instructions and one or more photographing control instructions, controlling a gimbal to perform a corresponding action according to at least one of the one or more gimbal action control instructions, and controlling a camera device to perform photographing according to at least one of the one or more photographing control instructions. The at least one of the one or more photographing control instructions cause the camera device to photograph along with the action performed by the gimbal during at least part of a whole photographing process.
US11102404B2
A camera module includes a first camera, a second camera, and a driving component. The first camera and the second camera are symmetrically arranged in the camera module, connected by a shaft, and configured to photograph a non-wide-angle image; the first camera is provided with a first translation shaft, and the second camera is provided with a second translation shaft; the driving component is connected with the first translation shaft and the second translation shaft to drive the first translation shaft and the second translation shaft to move in opposite directions and drive the first camera and the second camera to rotate synchronously in two opposite directions about the shaft.
US11102401B2
An image device corresponding to depth information/panoramic image includes at least two image capturers. A first image capturer and a second image capturer of the at least two image capturers are used for capturing a plurality of first images and a plurality of second images, respectively. The first image capturer transmits the plurality of first images to an image processor, the second image capturer transmits the plurality of second images to the image processor, and the image processor generates depth information according to the plurality of first images, and generates panoramic images or panoramic videos according to the plurality of second images.
US11102400B2
Pulsed fluorescence imaging in a light deficient environment is disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes a controller configured to synchronize timing of the emitter and the image sensor. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 770 nm to about 790 nm.
US11102396B2
An electronic device sets, in accordance with a use operation, which one of a plurality of objects is to be used to display a specific setting item on a setting screen. The plurality of objects include a first object and a second object whose display size, information amount to be displayed, and number of types of operable setting values are larger than the first object. In case where the first object is displayed on the setting screen, the electronic device changes a first setting value concerning the specific setting item in accordance with an operation on one of a first or second operation member. In case where the second object is displayed on the setting screen, the electronic device changes the first and second setting values in accordance with the operations on the first and second operation members, respectively.
US11102394B2
A control apparatus includes a focus detector configured to detect a defocus amount based on a phase difference between a pair of image signals generated based on light beams having passed through mutually different pupil areas in an imaging optical system, and a controller configured to control a focus lens in the imaging optical system. The controller is configured to perform an autofocus control based on the defocus amount detected by the focus detector, and a manual focus control based on an operation of a user via an operation member. The controller performs the autofocus control when a change amount relating to a speed of the focus lens in the manual focus control falls within a predetermined range.
US11102393B2
A variable magnification method, apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium is disclosed. The method comprises: acquiring angle parameters for the current position of a camera after receiving a variable magnification instruction; wherein, the variable magnification instruction is configured for instructing the camera to perform the variable magnification based on a target magnification ratio parameter; querying target historical focusing information based on the angle parameters for the current position, wherein, the target historical focusing information comprises a historical magnification ratio parameter and a historical in-focus parameter of the camera; querying a target variable magnification curve based on the historical magnification ratio parameter and the historical in-focus parameter; and controlling the camera to perform the variable magnification based on the target variable magnification curve.
US11102392B2
An image pickup apparatus that is capable of obtaining a defocus amount for focus detection with high accuracy at high speed with a simple configuration even in a time of image stabilization. The image pickup apparatus including a memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to obtain optical parameters about an image pickup optical system and an image sensor as reference information, correct the reference information based on a relative moving amount of the image sensor with respect to an optical axis of the image pickup optical system, obtain a control parameter corresponding to corrected reference information by referring to an information data set that stores the control parameter used for finding a defocus amount for focus detection in association with the reference information, and find the defocus amount based on the control parameter obtained.
US11102390B2
An apparatus includes a frame, a screen supported by the frame for displaying an image; a first optical sensor for capturing an image, an extendable arm connected to the frame; and a second optical sensor connected to the arm for capturing an image. Such an apparatus can be used for capturing and displaying information for low vision persons.
US11102388B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: activating, on a device, a world view camera; obtaining, using the world view camera, world view image data; activating, on the device, a front view camera; obtaining, using the front view camera, front view image data; and providing, on a display of the device, a view displaying the front view image data and the world view image data. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11102387B2
A camera module includes a housing defining an internal space; a reflection module disposed in the internal space and including a reflective member and a holder movably supported by an inner wall of the housing; and a lens module provided in the internal space, and including lenses aligned in an optical axis direction so that light reflected by the reflective member is incident to the lenses. The lens module includes lens barrels accommodating the lenses, and the plurality of lens barrels move in an approximate optical axis direction in the internal space while being supported by ball bearings. At least two of the lens barrels share a guide groove to guide movements of the ball bearings.
US11102381B1
Disclosed herein are technological solutions that are configured to limit sub-optimal visualization of the surgical field during robotic and manual laparoscopic surgery. Such technological solutions are configured to systematically assess cleanliness of an imaging element of a laparoscope (or other type of similar imaging apparatus) and take action for enabling or causing the imaging element to be cleaned. In preferred embodiments, assessment of the cleanliness of the imaging element provides information that can be used for enabling or causing cleaning of the imaging element to be performed in-vivo in either a manual, semi-autonomous or autonomous manner. In this manner such technological solutions advantageously enable the surgical field during surgery to be more efficiently and consistently maintained in an optimal condition.
US11102379B2
Methods (900, 1000) and apparatuses (110, 120, 400) are provided for transmitting and receiving a signal. The method (900) of transmitting a signal includes modulating (920) data into a plurality of modulation symbols to generate a signal, the data including time synchronization information including one of a time offset parameter and a frame length parameter selected according to a frame length mode parameter, and transmitting (930) the signal over a communication medium. The method (1000) of receiving a signal includes receiving (1010) a signal over a communication medium, and demodulating (1020) the signal to generate a plurality of demodulated symbols, the demodulated symbols including data, the data including time synchronization information including one of a time offset parameter and a frame length parameter selected according to a frame length mode parameter.
US11102377B2
A recording system for recording a recording image based on image data by repeating a pass operation in which a nozzle column discharges ink while reciprocating relatively to a recording medium in a main scanning direction to form dots on the recording medium, and a conveying operation of relatively moving the nozzle column and the recording medium in a sub-scanning direction crossing the main scanning direction, the recording system including an assigning section for obtaining a plurality of halftone data which is generated with respect to the same area of the image data based on the image data, and which corresponds to the ink of a predetermined color, and then assigning each of the halftone data obtained to the pass operations in the same direction in reciprocation in the main scanning direction in a predetermined recording area.
US11102372B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide an information recording body, a medium and a printed product having improved design properties. An information recording body provided with a superimposed image including a brilliant layer and a transparent layer formed on the brilliant layer is characterized in that: the brilliant layer is a chromatic color image formed from a brilliant material; the transparent layer is a regular pattern image formed from a transparent starting material; the transparent starting material is configured in such a way that an amount of light reflected therefrom differs depending on an observation angle; and the superimposed image is formed in such a way that the transparent layer is recognizable in accordance with a specific observation angle.
US11102369B2
An image reading device includes (i) light guides extending in a main scanning direction and configured to emit light from a light source toward a reading target moving relatively in a sub-scanning direction, the light from the light source being projected into end surfaces of the light guides in the main scanning direction, (ii) an optical filter arranged between the light source and the end surfaces of the light guides and configured to block or attenuate light having a specific wavelength from the light from the light source, (iii) a lens body to focus reflected light reflected by the reading target onto a light receiver to convert the reflected light into an electrical signal, and (iv) a lens holder. The lens holder includes a first positioner for positioning the light guides and a second positioner for positioning the optical filter.
US11102363B2
An image selection function of a printer determines permission areas in which superimposition of an object is allowed, and selects a target image from among receptive images in which the object can be fitted in the determined permission areas, among a plurality of images.
US11102359B2
An information processing system allows an operation status of a web application cooperating with a multifunction peripheral (MFP) and being operated on a mobile terminal to be handed over to the MFP by simply causing the mobile terminal and the MFP to cooperate.
US11102354B2
A method for providing haptic feedback to participants of multi-party phone conversations that includes opening a communications session with a conference system for at least two users each having user specific communications devices, user specific conduct measuring devices, and user specific haptic feedback device registered with the conference system. Analyzing content of the communications session from content received by the conference system through the user specific communications device for at least one of the users; and capturing status for said at least two users from data measured by the user specific conduct measuring device for the at least two users. Determining with the conference system if the content of the communications session and the status of said at least two users calls for input by the user through said user specific communications device. Sending a feedback signal from the conference system to the user specific haptic feedback device.
US11102349B2
In the case of a method or an arrangement for the automatic start up of a first communication terminal (EG A, EG B) configured for voice communication on at least one second communication terminal (CL A, CL B) configured for text communication, the voice communication between communication terminals is conveyed via at least one voice communication server (SCS) and the text communication between communication terminals is conveyed via at least one text communication server (TCS). The at least one voice communication server (SCS) and the at least one text communication server (TCS) exchange information via at least one conversion device (GW). The start up of at least one first communication terminal (CL A, CL B) is effected via the at least one text communication server (TCS), the at least one conversion device (GW) and the at least one voice communication server (SCS) to at least one second voice communication terminal (EG A, EG B).
US11102348B1
Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing voice-over-IP (VoIP) services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more VoIP servers configured and arranged to route VoIP calls to and from users of a plurality of customer accounts. Each customer account has a respective plurality of users and a respective settings file. For each of the customer accounts, a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the VoIP servers, records an audio portion of a VoIP call to or from a user of the customer account in response to the VoIP call satisfying a set of recording criteria specified in the settings file for the customer account. The recording criteria for at least one of the customer accounts includes account-level settings for selecting VoIP calls to be recorded and sets of user-level settings indicating criteria for preventing recording of VoIP calls of the individual users.
US11102346B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing additional information to called parties comprises receiving a call from a calling party, performing a lookup of information associated with the calling party in a database, receiving the information from the database, and forwarding the information to a called party. The system comprises at least one device for receiving a call from a calling party, and at least one database for storing information associated with the calling party, wherein the at least one device is operable to perform a lookup of information associated with the calling party in a database, receive the information from the database, and forward the information to a called party.
US11102335B1
The disclosure details the implementation of an apparatus, method, and system comprising a portable device configured to communicate with a terminal and a network server, and execute stored program code in response to user interaction with an interactive user interface. The portable device contains stored program code configured to render an interactive user interface on a terminal output component to enable the user the control processing activity on the portable device and access data and programs from the portable device and a network server.
US11102329B2
A method includes identifying a first validation parameter of a first network node and a second validation parameter of a second network node. The method includes creating an authentication node based on the first and second validation parameters. The method also includes receiving a request to access a microservice that utilizes the first network node and the second network node. The authentication node analyzes the request to make a validation determination indicative of whether the request satisfies the first and second validation parameters and controls access to the microservice based on the validation determination.
US11102322B2
A data processing method and apparatus, a server, and a controller, where the method includes receiving, by a server, a data processing request, where the data processing request includes a request sequence number, and the request sequence number marks the data processing request, generating at least one input/output (I/O) request according to the data processing request, adding the request sequence number to each of the at least one I/O request, merging the I/O requests having the request sequence number, and generating an aggregation instruction when a quantity of I/O requests having the request sequence number is greater than a preset threshold, and sending the aggregation instruction to a controller of a storage system. Hence, a time taken to perform monitoring and management using a transaction mechanism can be reduced, thereby simplifying the transaction mechanism.
US11102317B2
The described technology relates to a logging framework wherein identifiers are associated with various elements within a web application, such as pages within the application and portions of pages within the application. Additional identifiers may be associated with sessions within the application, instances of page visits within the application, and other facets of the application and user interactions with the application. The identifiers can be used to generate a log that indicates, among other information, a history of interactions performed by a user navigating the application.
US11102306B2
Systems and methods for continuous measurement of an analyte in a host are provided. The system generally includes a continuous analyte sensor configured to continuously measure a concentration of analyte in a host and a sensor electronics module physically connected to the continuous analyte sensor during sensor use, wherein the sensor electronics module is further configured to directly wirelessly communicate displayable sensor information to a plurality of different types of display devices.
US11102302B2
An in-flight entertainment and communications (IFEC) system is configured to interconnect an avionics data bus to a local area network. An avionics interface is connectable to the avionics data bus, and receptive to avionics data transmitted on the avionics data bus by one or more avionics nodes over a predetermined protocol. A local network interface establishes the local area network, and portable electronic devices may be connectable to the local network interface over the local area network to establish a data communications link thereon. A data processor is connected to the avionics interface and the local network interface, and relays the avionics data from the avionics interface to the local network interface for transmission to the one or more portable electronics devices. This transmission is according to the predetermined protocol over the data communications link established on the local area network.
US11102301B2
In some implementations, there is provided a method, which includes transforming, by the recommendation system, a first data set into the principal component analysis domain; rotating, by the recommendation system, the transformed first data first data set into a common axis system; comparing, by the recommendation system, the rotated, transformed first data set to at least one of a plurality of reference data sets having been rotated into the common axis system; and identifying, by the recommendation system, at least one reference data set, the identifying based on the comparing. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US11102292B2
A system synchronizes change-data in a multi-tenant system with one or more external service provider systems. The system comprises a system interface configured to receive transaction events; a write-optimized transactional database for recording the transaction events; a replicated read-optimized transactional database; a transaction log of change-data generated from the read-optimized transactional database; a first change-data processor configured to identify the change-data in the transaction log that is relevant to at least one external service provider system, and to generate an aggregate relevant change-data log; a second change-data processor configured to identify aggregate relevant change-data that is relevant to a particular external service provider system, and to generate a service provider relevant change-data log; a service provider connector configure to await a real-time trigger condition, and to, in response to the trigger condition, perform a synchronization session to synchronize the service provider relevant change-data with the particular external service provider system.
US11102289B2
The present disclosure provides a method for managing resource state information and a system for downloading a resource, which belongs to network communication technologies. According to the method, a target super node receives a file identification of at least one target resource file sent by a Tracker server (204); the target super node configures a download service of each of the at least one target resource file according to the file identification and a local resource storage state (205); and the target super node feeds back service configuration information of each of the at least one target resource file to the Tracker server (206).
US11102273B2
Previously available network monitoring and management systems fail to provide an indication about how uplink traffic is handled at or beyond the network access point. By contrast, various implementations disclosed herein provide uplink performance monitoring and management from a client device, which is located on one side of an access point, to a destination that is located on the other side of the access point. For example, in some implementations, a method of uplink performance management is provided that includes transmitting a plurality of uplink test packets from a client device, determining a response to the transmission of the plurality of uplink test packets through the network access point, and generating one or more uplink performance values according to the determined response, the one or more uplink performance values characterizing how uplink traffic is handled between the client device and the destination both to and beyond the network access point.
US11102269B1
Techniques for media stream patching using dynamic frame prediction are described. A frame loss detector of a decoder can detect a frame loss condition of an input media stream and cause a request for a substitute frame to be sent to a frame predictor. The frame predictor uses one or more machine learning models to infer a substitute frame, which is inserted into the media stream for further processing and distribution.
US11102262B2
Methods and systems for generating and sharing media clips are described. Consistent with some embodiments, while a selection of digital media content (e.g., a movie, television program, audio track, and so on) is being presented at a media player, a user creates one or more sets of waypoints (e.g., time markers) that define the boundaries (e.g., beginning and end) of one or more media clips. These waypoints are communicated from one media player device to another, enabling the receiving media player device to retrieve and play back the media clips from a source other than the media player device where the waypoints were generated.
US11102253B2
A computer has a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to receive a real time communication request from a client device and perform an evaluation of the number of client devices associated with the real time communication request. The evaluation results in the coordination of peer-to-peer communications in the event of two client devices and an attempt to host a real time communication session using a first protocol in the event of three or more client devices. A second protocol for the real time communication session is invoked in the event that the attempt to host the real time communication session using the first protocol is unsuccessful.
US11102247B2
An example method comprises receiving, by a secure content system, an email from a sender to a recipient, scanning the contents of the email, evaluating the contents of the email based on a plurality of security rules, storing the sensitive data within a secure storage, generating a replacement email including a security link and not including at least the sensitive data, the security link providing a requester access to the sensitive data providing that a security function is satisfied, sending the replacement email including the security link to the recipient, receiving a request to access the sensitive data, the request being related to the security function challenging the requester using the security function, receiving, from the requester, a response to the security function, determining if the security function is satisfied by the response, and if the security function is satisfied, providing access to the sensitive data to the requester.
US11102246B2
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, security management apparatuses, and network traffic management systems are disclosed that improve network security via input field obfuscation are disclosed. With this technology, a script is injected into source code of a web page received from a server. The source code is then sent to a requesting client. The script is configured to remove an event listener attached to a protected input field of the web page to provide a script secured input field. An application layer message that is received from the client is subsequently sent to the server. The application layer message includes data submitted via the script secured input field that prevented one or more keystrokes corresponding to the data from being observed by a source of the event listener.
US11102242B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detecting and disabling replay attacks. One of the methods includes receiving a transaction to be completed in a blockchain. A current working section of memory storing transaction information that is designated for use in identifying past transactions already processed is determined, where the memory also stores a backup section providing, when used in combination with the current working section, an alternating memory section storage scheme for the transaction information. From the current working section, whether the transaction has previously been processed is determined. When it is determined that the transaction has previously been processed, the transaction is bypassed. When it is determined that the transaction has not previously been processed the transaction is processed and transaction information for the transaction is written into the current working section.
US11102233B2
A method and system for detecting vulnerable wireless devices operating in a wireless environment of an organization are provided. The method includes identifying a plurality of wireless devices operable in the wireless environment; for each identified wireless device: receiving intercepted traffic transmitted by the wireless device, wherein the intercepted traffic is transported using at least one type of wireless protocol; analyzing the intercepted traffic to determine if the wireless device is vulnerable, wherein the analysis is performed using an at least one investigation action; computing a risk score based on results of each of the least one investigation action; determining, based on the computed risk scores, if the wireless device is as vulnerable; and generating an alert, when it is determined that the wireless device is vulnerable.
US11102232B2
A processor-implemented method records and maintains a record of browser events in a blockchain using a peer-to-peer network. One or more processors detect one or more browser events for a browser on a computer. The processor(s) transmit transactions associated with the browser event(s) to a peer-to-peer network of devices that create a blockchain, which includes one or more blocks that describe the browser event(s), where the blockchain records and maintains a record, of browser events, that includes records of uniform resource locators (URLs) browsed by a user, bookmarks added to the browser, and search terms searched by the user. The processor(s) perform a vulnerability analysis to determine how vulnerable the computer and the browser are to a malicious attack, and adjust a frequency of transmitting the transactions from the computer to the peer-to-peer network of devices according to how vulnerable the computer and the browser are to the malicious attack.
US11102227B2
The described technology is generally directed towards providing unified analytics and troubleshooting for enterprise software systems. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components, and a processor that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a remote service component that receives first information from an edge array installed in a second security zone, wherein the edge array employs an application programming interface of an application to generate the first information from the application on a server in the second security zone. The system can further comprise a processing component that processes the first information, resulting in second information. The system can further comprise a communication component that communicates the second information to the edge array.
US11102226B2
The present invention relates to a dynamic security method and system based on multi-fusion linkage response. In the method, a site control device conducts active response and passive response through identity authentication and key management to give an alarm for abnormal behaviors. The system comprises an access authentication active response module, an access control active response module, an access control passive response module, an abnormal pretending passive response module, a key vulnerability passive response module and an abnormal state passive response mechanism module. On the basis of ensuring validity and feasibility for the security of a terminal device, the present invention can build a secure and trusted industrial control system operating environment.
US11102223B2
A system and method for tracking data security threats within an organization is proposed. A threat aggregator process executing on an analysis computer system within the organization receives events indicating possible threats observed by and sent from different user devices and aggregates related events into threats. This enables the threats to be analyzed and acted upon at a level of the organization (e.g., across user devices) rather than at the level of the individual user devices. An endpoint telemetry system analyzes threats sent from the aggregator and provides security policies for responding to the threats. In examples, the system can identify attacks of related threats and act upon the related threats of the attack collectively, and can characterize false positive threats sent from multiple user devices as a single extraneous threat. This has advantages over the per-user device focus for responding to threats provided by current systems and methods.
US11102222B1
Methods and systems for scanning a network. The disclosed methods may involve receiving a list of a plurality of target devices and scanning a first device to determine if a particular port and protocol combination appears to be open on the first device. Upon determining that a particular port and protocol combination appears to be open on the first device, the method involves interrogating the first device before or during scanning of a second device to gather data regarding a service running on the first device.
US11102214B2
A method includes determining to share access to a directory between a first web services account and a second web services account that lacks access to the directory, wherein the directory is managed by a directory service that executes within a first on-demand configurable pool of shared computing resources, and wherein the second web services account is associated with a second on-demand configurable pool of shared computing resources. The method includes generating a virtual directory for the second web services account, wherein the virtual directory comprises one or more virtual resources that are representations of resources on the directory, and wherein the virtual directory further comprises a reference to the directory. The method further includes receiving an access request to the directory from the second web services account, wherein the access request is received via the reference from the virtual directory to the directory, and then granting the access request.
US11102208B2
A computer security system provides for auto-populating process-connection whitelists using process wildcarding and connection wildcarding. Process wildcarding involves grouping process-connection requests together in a process* group without regard to the presence of distinct process arguments; in contrast, some process-connection requests may be separated both by process and by argument into process●argument groups. The process-connection requests may then be analyzed on a group-by-group basis to determine which processes can be mapped to wildcarded connection in a respective process-connection whitelist.
US11102197B2
A system includes a database and a processor. The database stores a key indicating that a user previously accessed a first subsystem. An authentication string stores a first part of the key and a first authentication server stores a second part. The processor receives a request from the user seeking access to a second subsystem. The processor launches a first virtual host to receive the authentication string and send it to the first authentication server, to extract the first part of the key, assemble a test key including the first and second parts of the key, and determine that the test key matches the key stored in the database. The first virtual host then launches a second virtual host to receive login credentials and send them to a second authentication server to authenticate the user. In response, the second virtual host provides the user with access to the second subsystem.
US11102196B2
A computer-implemented method and system for authenticating API is provided. An API invocation request associated with a user is received. An API operation and the shareable API key includes validating API key credentials of the shareable API key associated with the API invocation request. There is an additional validation of user credentials of the user associated with the API invocation request. It is determined whether the user having the validated user credentials is authorized to use the shareable API key to invoke the API operation. The API operation is executed in response to determining the user having validated user credentials is authorized to use the shareable API key to invoke the API operation. The authentication integrates validation of the user and the shareable API key, and determines whether a user is a subscriber of a multi-tenant subscription service.
US11102195B1
Systems and methods for secure information exchange are disclosed. During setup of an accessory device in association with a voice-enabled device, token data may be generated and signed using a private encryption key by the accessory device. An accessory-device system associated with the accessory device may send a request for account identification including the token data to a remote system associated with the voice-enabled device. The remote system may determine if an application associated with the accessory-device system is enabled, and if enabled, may send the account identification in an encrypted format to the accessory-device system.
US11102182B2
A system and method for encrypting and decrypting information is presented. In some embodiments, an endpoint token management system is provided for facilitating dynamic and random encryption and decryption methods. The system and methods may be employed in virtually any system or network, and may be used to protect virtually any type of data, whether at rest (data storage), in motion (data transfer), or in use. In some embodiments, synchronization points are used as analogs for encryption/decryption keys, enabling the encrypting system and decrypting system to begin randomly altering encryption data in a like-manner, thereby creating a constantly changing encryption field that is virtually impossible to decrypt without authorization.
US11102181B2
A method and apparatus where network-layer devices use host-provided, detailed, per-packet, semantic information (DPPS information), which describes the content, meaning, importance, and/or other attributes of particular application data and is associated with each packet, to provide enhanced network services. In some embodiments of the above method, network-layer devices use DPPS information that includes QoS-related information to provide fine-grained, content-aware, and/or complex QoS assurances or similar services. In some embodiments, network-layer devices use DPPS information to provide network-based, application-protocol-independent, rate-adaptation services. In some embodiments, network-layer devices use DPPS information to provide highly efficient, application-protocol-independent, publish/subscribe dissemination services.
US11102175B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for categorizing web applications based on age restrictions in online content policies may include (i) accessing a web application associated with a group of application pages, (ii) determining policy data for accessing content from the web application in the application pages, (iii) extracting one or more age restrictions for accessing the web application from the policy data, and (iv) performing a security action that prevents underage access to the web application based on the age restrictions. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11102169B2
The present disclosure provides a method of embedding finer grained information such as user identity and application identity in IPv6 addresses used for end-to-end communications within a network. The finer grained information can be used for improved policy enforcement within the network. In one aspect, generating an address for an end-to-end communication within a network, the address including a user identifier and an application identifier for network policy enforcement; assigning the address to an application used in the end-to-end communication; and performing network segmentation and the network policy enforcement within the network using the address.
US11102168B2
A content provider has a plurality of content provider domain names, and a content delivery network (CDN) allocates a plurality of CDN domain names to the particular content provider. The content provider domain names are mapped to the CDN domain names. CDN domain names are bound to corresponding CDN clusters. The binding of the of CDN domain names to corresponding CDN clusters is modified.
US11102164B1
A virtual network comprising virtual machines executing at a computing environment is implemented. A software defined networking (SDN) appliance is configured to provide a connection to computing resources via a virtual network of a virtual computing environment. The SDN appliance is configured to apply policies of the virtual computing environment to data traffic on the virtual network. The SDN appliance is operable to interact with multiple network devices that are configured to act as a hardware acceleration device for processing data traffic. Virtual addresses are assigned to the network devices. The SDN appliance executes a virtual switch configured to identify data traffic sent to or received from a host and act as a proxy for the network devices and respond on their behalf.
US11102158B2
Providing a mobile device with web-based access to data objects is disclosed. Authentication information is sent from a mobile device to a relay server. The relay server executes a connection application to establish a connection to a web access server. The authentication information is provided to the web access server associated with a data store hosting a data object. Upon authentication, the data object is provided to the relay server from the data store. The data object is then provided to the mobile device.
US11102156B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for providing information associated with an attachment (e.g., attachment received through an instant message system, online collaboration tool, electronic message and the like). A sidebar may allow a user to view comprehensive profile and content information associated with the attachment using an attachment information viewer. The sidebar also may allow the user to switch between a message attachment information view (e.g., to facilitate browsing of the document or attachment) and a person profile information view (e.g., to facilitate browsing of personal or public data).
US11102138B2
A method for providing guaranteed minimum intermediate proxy node bandwidth for services includes configuring, at an intermediate proxy node, a guaranteed minimum bandwidth of the intermediate proxy node reserved to process messages associated with a service. The method further includes receiving a first message at the intermediate proxy node. The method further includes determining, by the intermediate proxy node, that the intermediate proxy node is in an overloaded state. The method further includes identifying, by the intermediate proxy node, the first message as being associated with the service for which the guaranteed minimum bandwidth is configured. The method further includes determining, by the intermediate proxy node, that a portion of the guaranteed minimum bandwidth for the service is available to process the first message. The method further includes routing, by the intermediate proxy node and to a producer network function (NF) that provides the service, the first message and updating a message count for the service.
US11102137B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a wireless communication modem, at least one processor connected with the communication modem and comprising a plurality of cores, and a nonvolatile memory operatively connected with the processor, wherein the nonvolatile memory stores instructions that cause a first core of the processor to receive first data packets having a first size from the wireless communication modem, and to transmit at least a portion of the first data packets to a second core of the processor, and that cause the second core to receive the at least a portion of the first data packets from the first core, to merge the at least a portion of the first data packets into a plurality of second data packets having sizes larger than the first size, based at least in part on a type of the first data packets, and to transmit the second data packets to at least one other core of the processor than the first core and the second core.
US11102134B2
A method for determining a contention window size in clear channel assessment, including: determining, at least one user equipment first UE that occupies an uplink subframe on an unlicensed carrier and that is in at least one UE scheduled in a reference subframe, where the uplink subframe is an uplink subframe in which at least one UE scheduled by the base station in the reference subframe feeds back a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ status for the reference subframe; and determining, a CWS in CCA for downlink transmission based on a HARQ status of the at least one first UE that occupies the uplink subframe.
US11102133B2
An embodiment method includes: a first service atom receives a second packet sent by a central switching device, where a first service packet is encapsulated in the second packet and the second packet further includes a first service path identifier. The first service atom performs first service processing according to information in the first service packet, to obtain a first processing result. The first service atom queries a first path switching entry according to the first processing result and the first service path identifier. The first service atom sends a third packet to the central switching device, where a source device identifier of the third packet is a device identifier of the first service atom, a second service packet is encapsulated in the third packet, and the third packet includes the second service path identifier.
US11102127B2
A network element includes multiple output ports and circuitry. The multiple output ports are configured to transmit packets over multiple respective network links of a communication network. The circuitry is configured to receive from the communication network, via one or more input ports of the network element, packets that are destined for transmission via the multiple output ports, to monitor multiple data-counts, each data-count corresponding to a respective output port, and is indicative of a respective data volume of the packets forwarded for transmission via the respective output port, to select for a given packet, based on the data-counts, an output port among the multiple output ports, and to forward the given packet for transmission via the selected output port.
US11102123B2
A server device includes a determination unit and a control unit. The determination unit determines the degree of congestion of a communication network on the basis of a difference between the time difference, between the transmission time and the reception time of sensor data transmitted from a gateway device to the server device, and the communication period of time taken in a state where congestion does not occur. The control unit determines a sensor device from which sensor data is collected and a sensor device in which collection of sensor data is withheld on the basis of the determination result of the degree of congestion of the communication network, and sends an instruction including the determined content to the gateway device.
US11102121B2
This disclosure describes various methods, systems, and devices related to identifying path changes of data flows in a network. An example method includes receiving, at a node, a packet including a first path signature. The method further includes generating a second path signature by inputting the first path signature and one or more node details into a hash function. The method includes replacing the first path signature with the second path signature in the packet. The packet including the second path signature is forwarded by the node.
US11102113B2
A method for interconnecting two or more virtual private networks in a hybrid multi-cloud computing environment. The method may include remapping a first virtual private network to a first Internet Protocol address range that does not overlap with a second Internet Protocol address range of a second virtual private network. The remapping may include assigning, to a first endpoint in the first virtual private network, a first Internet Protocol address that differs from a second Internet Protocol address of a second endpoint in the second virtual private network. Traffic between the first virtual private network, the second virtual private network, and/or a third virtual private network may be routed based at least on the first Internet Protocol address range and the second Internet Protocol address range. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US11102112B2
Systems and methods are provided for supporting scalable multi-homed routing for virtual switch based host channel adapter (HCA) virtualization in a subnet. An exemplary method can provide one or more switches, a plurality of host channel adapters, a plurality of hypervisors, and a plurality of virtual machines. The method can arrange the plurality of host channel adapters with one or more of a virtual switch with prepopulated local identifiers (LIDs) architecture or a virtual switch with dynamic LID assignment architecture. The method can further perform a multi-homed routing for the subnet, wherein at least one of the plurality of host channel adapters comprises two virtual switches, wherein the two virtual switches are treated as endpoints of the subnet, and wherein the multi-homed routing for the subnet ensures that each the two virtual switches are routed through independent paths.
US11102099B2
An advancement over previous techniques using only certain out-of-band probe PDUs to determine loss. Packet loss statistics for a SD-WAN overlay path can be calculated for every packet transmitted by one endpoint and every packet received at the other endpoint. The roles of the positions of circular buffers can be periodically rotated from active to pre-stable to stable to post-stable. Counters in the active role can be incremented whenever a packet is transmitted. A position identifier can indicate which counter to increment when the packet is received. Counters in positions that are stable can be used to produce loss statistics for the SD-WAN overlay path.
US11102090B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a data-plane forwarding circuit (data plane) that has a flow-size detection circuit that generates flow-size density distribution for all or some of the data message flows that it processes for forwarding in a network. The flow-size (FS) detection circuit in some embodiments generates statistical values regarding the processed data message flows, and based on these statistical values, it generates a FS density distribution that expresses a number of flows in different flow-size sub-ranges in a range of flow sizes. In some embodiments, the density distribution is a probabilistic density distribution that is based on probabilistic statistical values that the flow-size detection circuit generates for the data message flows that are processed for forwarding within the network. The FS detection circuit in some embodiments generates probabilistic statistical values for the data message flows by generating hash values from header values of the data message flows and accumulating flow-size values at memory locations identified by the generated hash values. In some embodiments, the generated hashes for different data message flows can collide, which results in the accumulated flow-size values being probabilistic values that might have a certain level of inaccuracy.
US11102079B2
Virtual networks located in different regions of cloud provider are peered using unique regional identifiers for the virtual networks. The regional identifiers and other information are pushed down a network management stack to implement the peering.
US11102077B2
Embodiments herein relate to transmitting specific traffic along a blocked link. A status of links between switches of a network is monitored. The status of the links is one of blocked and non-blocked. A blocked link is not used by a Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). At least one of the network switches is configured to transmit the specific traffic along the blocked link.
US11102075B2
A network slice programming and management system is provided, for slicing a network to multiple groups of logical network slices composed of a collection of logical network functions, each dedicated to supporting a specific respective use for subscribers of the slice. The system comprises of a programming interface configured to receive commands for creation and/or configuration of network slice design comprising the constraints and requirements defining an architecture of logical network functions that when deployed form a network slice of a network, the commands include selection of at least one network function and a definition of an interaction of the selected at least one network function with other network functions.
US11102072B2
A method for determining a misconfiguration of components in an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure includes decomposing one or more components into sub parts, creating one or more synthetic objects, each synthetic object being associated with a sub part of a respective component, and including the components and the synthetic objects in a model of the IT infrastructure. The method further determines a relationship between a first component and a first synthetic object based on attributes of the first component and attributes of the first synthetic object, includes the determined relationship in the model of the IT infrastructure, and loads a graph of the IT infrastructure in a graph database with the first component and the synthetic object as nodes and the determined relationship as an edge in the graph. The method further determines the misconfiguration of components in the IT infrastructure by identifying components having improper relationships in the graph.
US11102056B1
A method for requesting connection in a blue-green deployment which is switched over from a first server (blue) to which at least two clients are connected to a second server (green). The method can include determining, upon receipt of the maintenance notification or detection of a connection failure, an activity score at each one of the at least two clients; and, upon switchover to the second server or detection of the connection failure, transmitting, together with a respective reconnection request, the respective activity score from each one of the at least two clients to the second server for the second server to evaluate a prioritization of the reconnection request based on the activity score. Embodiments of a communication system, server system, and clients (e.g. user devices) can utilize embodiments of the method.
US11102038B2
A method may comprise receiving and sampling a signal. The signal may encode a data packet. A slice may be generated and stored comprising a pair of values for each of a selected number of samples of the signal representing a correlation of the signal to reference functions in the receiver. The presence of the data packet may then be detected and the detected packet decoded from the stored slices. The generating and storing slices may be carried out as the received signal is sampled. The sampled values of the signal may be discarded as the slices are generated and stored. The slice representation of the signal can be manipulated to generate filters with flexible bandwidth and center frequency.
US11102032B2
Some embodiments establish for an entity a virtual network over several public clouds of several public cloud providers and/or in several regions. In some embodiments, the virtual network is an overlay network that spans across several public clouds to interconnect one or more private networks (e.g., networks within branches, divisions, departments of the entity or their associated datacenters), mobile users, and SaaS (Software as a Service) provider machines, and other web applications of the entity. The virtual network in some embodiments can be configured to optimize the routing of the entity's data messages to their destinations for best end-to-end performance, reliability and security, while trying to minimize the routing of this traffic through the Internet. Also, the virtual network in some embodiments can be configured to optimize the layer 4 processing of the data message flows passing through the network.
US11102031B2
The present invention relates to a receiver circuit for processing an incoming bit stream from a bus system. The circuit comprises an analog interface for converting the analog signal to a digital input data stream. The interface comprises an analog filter and a switch to process the analog signal before generating the digital input data stream using the filter if, and only if, a selection criterion controlling the switch is met. The circuit comprises a frame decoding unit for decoding a data frame encoded in the digital input data stream in accordance with a CAN protocol, and a frame processing unit that comprises a flexible data rate detector and a recessive bit counter for counting consecutive recessive bits after detecting the flexible data rate frame. The selection criterion is satisfied when the flexible data rate frame is detected and unsatisfied when the recessive bit counter reaches a predetermined number.
US11102027B2
Doorbells often include a button to enable visitors to ring a chime to summon building occupants. In some embodiments, doorbells include a camera to take pictures of visitors. In several embodiments, doorbells include covers that are light filters. These light filters can cover infrared light sources such as infrared light emitting diodes. The light filters can pass infrared light while blocking visible light. In several embodiments, a front portion of a camera assembly fits through a hole in a light filter. Light filters can help secure camera assemblies and can form a portion of a doorbell's outer housing.
US11102021B2
A spoken communication system includes a plurality of domestic devices and a server. Each of the devices is responsive to spoken communication to communicate that spoken communication to other devices, and to receive spoken communications received by other communication devices. The server is in digital communication with domestic devices to communicate that spoken communication among the registered devices.
US11102017B2
Duplicate processing of events registered at a root server is avoided. An electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) server pushes, to a root server, data in the form of notification data portions indicating that commands or events need to be processed by a device. The device includes an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC). The device pulls a notification list from the root server. The notification list includes one or more notification data portions. The device checks a given notification data portion to see if it represents a duplicate before communicating with the eSIM server to perform further processing related to the event. The device bases the check for duplication on an event history and/or on a hash value where the hash value is based on one or more eSIMs installed in the eUICC. The device is able to prioritize notification data portions before processing them.
US11102014B2
The invention is a method for handling data in a secure container comprising first and second private keys uniquely allocated to the secure container. The secure container is configured to use the first private key to handle said data in a first operating mode and to use the second private key to handle said data in a second operating mode. The secure container is configured to prevent the update of the first private key after its clearing. The method comprises the step of automatically clearing the first private key in response to a request for enabling a software module in the second operating mode and a step of automatically using the first operating mode by the secure container if the first private key has not been cleared and of automatically using the second operating mode by the secure container if the first private key has been cleared.
US11102013B2
In one example, an apparatus such as an authorization server and method for secure communication between constrained devices issues cryptographic communication rights among a plurality of constrained devices. Each of the plurality of constrained devices comprises no more than one cryptographic algorithm code module per cryptographic function. The method includes receiving a cryptographic communication rights request associated with at least a first of the plurality of constrained devices in response to a cryptographic algorithm update request, and includes providing a response including an identification of a subset of the plurality of constrained devices that have cryptographic communication rights with the identified first of the plurality of constrained devices. A software update server then updates the cryptographic code modules in the sub-set of the plurality of constrained devices.
US11102001B2
A verification node in a trust management system manages, in a blockchain, a smart contract and an execution transaction of the smart contract as well as an evaluation execution transaction for the smart contract. The verification node includes and manages a verification result of the smart contract in the evaluation execution transaction, the verification result including a predetermined value for evaluation specified by a predetermined one of transaction issuing nodes and an output value obtained when the predetermined value is inputted to the smart contract, or includes and manages the output value in state information.
US11101993B1
A system and method for biobehavorial identification may include a user device, a secure system/client device, and a server. The elements of the system work together to monitor the biologic features (e.g., fingerprints, pupils, or the like) and behavior (e.g., wake time, exercise time, location) to verify the authenticity of a user requesting access to a database and/or secure facility.
US11101985B2
One embodiment provides a key transfer system and method based on a shared security application. During operation, an application executing on a terminal device receives an application key comprising at least a service key from a management server of the application and forwards the application key to a management server of a shared security application residing in a secure element in the terminal device, thereby facilitating the management server of the shared security application to deliver the application key to the shared security application. The application invokes the application key stored in the shared security application to perform services associated with the application. The application key is isolated from other application keys associated with other applications stored in the shared security application.
US11101976B2
An encryption method of a terminal device includes: setting a scaling factor; and reflecting the scaling factor in a message to be encrypted, and performing encryption using a public key to generate a homomorphic ciphertext. The homomorphic encryption is, based on a decryption being performed, in a form that a result value obtained by adding an error value to a value obtained by reflecting the scaling factor in the message is restored.
US11101974B2
A clock and data recovery device of a memory system receives a multiplexed data signal obtained by multiplexing a plurality of data units, each of which is to be transmitted to one of a plurality of memories for storage therein, in an area corresponding to each memory in an amplitude direction and a time direction. The clock and data recovery device includes a clock generation circuit configured to generate a clock, and a data recovery circuit configured to execute phase synchronization with respect to a synchronization signal included in the multiplexed data signal using the generated clock and to recover one of the data units from the area corresponding to one of the memories, from the multiplexed data signal.
US11101971B2
There is a need to support narrowband TDD frame structure for narrowband communications. The present disclosure provides a solution by supporting one or more narrowband TDD frame structure(s) for narrowband communications. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may determine a narrowband TDD frame structure for narrowband communications. The apparatus may also determine a PUSCH format of a group of PUSCH formats for allocating at least one RU to a UE for a NPUCCH. In addition, the apparatus may allocate the at least one RU to the UE using the determined PUSCH format. In one aspect, the RU may include one or more subcarriers in each of one or more slots.
US11101968B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of radio communications, and particularly to a method and apparatus for processing activation/deactivation of inter-eNodeB carrier aggregation. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for processing activation/deactivation of inter-eNodeB carrier aggregation, comprising the steps of: receiving, by UE, an MAC CE for activation/deactivation of an SCell sent by a master eNodeB or a secondary eNodeB; determining, by the UE, the corresponding SCell; and performing, by the UE, activation/deactivation to the corresponding SCell according to the indication information in the MAC CE for activation/deactivation.
US11101963B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving an acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) by a terminal for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a configuration for a resource pool for V2X communication; for a particular wireless resource in a resource pool, when a reception time point of a first ACK/NACK and a transmission time of a second ACK/NACK have been simultaneously configured, determining a use of the particular wireless resource; and transmitting and receiving one ACK/NACK selected from the first ACK/NACK and the second ACK/NACK, on the basis of the use of the particular wireless resource. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.
US11101962B2
A communication device receives a repetition index, a set indicator, and a downlink transmission. The downlink transmission spans a plurality of subframes. The communication device uses the repetition index as an index into one of a plurality of sets of subframe values specified by the set indicator to determine the number of subframes spanned by the downlink transmission, and decodes the downlink transmission according to the determined number of subframes.
US11101960B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for transmitting uplink control information and an apparatus, applicable to a multi-carrier system. A user terminal receives physical layer signaling from a network device, where the physical layer signaling includes first indication information. The user terminal determines, according to the first indication information, a bit quantity of periodic CSI that can be sent on a channel resource or a piece quantity of periodic CSI that can be sent on a channel resource. The user terminal determines, according to the bit quantity or the piece quantity of the periodic CSI that can be sent, to-be-sent periodic CSI from periodic CSI corresponding to multiple downlink carriers. The user terminal sends HARQ-ACK information and the to-be-sent periodic CSI on the channel resource.
US11101954B2
A mobile communication device has a receiver configured to receive a radio signal over a radio channel. The radio signal has a predetermined pilot preamble. The mobile communication device has a processor configured to determine mobility information, in particular a Doppler and/or a Delay Spread, based on the pilot preamble. The processor is further configured to signal the mobility information to a second communication device. A base station is also provided, having: a receiver configured to receive mobility information, in particular a Doppler and/or a Delay Spread, signaled by a mobile communication device; and a processor, configured to select a numerology based on the mobility information and to generate a radio signal for transmission to the communication device based on the numerology.
US11101950B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to communication systems, and more particularly, to techniques for time domain bundling of demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) in slot aggregation. An exemplary method generally includes detecting one or more conditions in at least one of a plurality of aggregated slots that indicate the at least one of the aggregated slots is not configured as a downlink-only slot, wherein each slot comprises a plurality of symbols, in response to the detection, determining whether to bundle demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) received across one or more of the aggregated slots, and performing channel estimation based on the determination.
US11101948B2
This application provides a data transmission method, a terminal, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, first indication information and second indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate at least one group of resources, the at least one group of resources corresponds to at least one group of antenna ports or at least one group of codewords, the second indication information is used to indicate the at least one group of codewords and QCL configuration information of the at least one group of antenna ports, or the second indication information is used to indicate the at least one group of antenna ports and QCL configuration information of the at least one group of antenna ports; and determining, by the terminal, the at least one group of resources based on the first indication information and the second indication information.
US11101947B2
A method and an apparatus for determining a scheduling user and a system. The method includes: determining a first pre-scheduling user at a second moment from a user in the first cell at a first moment; determining a first transmit weight of the first cell at the second moment; receiving a second transmit weight at the second moment that is sent by a second base station to which a second cell belongs in a data transmission system; calculating a signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR of each user in the first cell at the second moment based on the first transmit weight and the second transmit weight; and selecting a target scheduling user at the second moment from the user in the first cell based on the SINR of each user at the second moment.
US11101946B2
A network node, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), and system for operating a wireless network is disclosed. A first network node receives a radio resource control (RRC) message from a WTRU, the RRC message including WTRU capability information. The first network node then sends an application protocol message having RRC information to a second network node for use by the second network node to configure uplink resources for the WTRU, the RRC information including the WTRU capability information and physical channel configuration information of the WTRU.
US11101944B2
A method by which a transmitting end operates in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: performing sparse coding on information so as to have sparsity of which the number of non-zero symbols is K; configuring a codebook by including a code for spreading for each user; spreading the coded information by using one or more codes in the codebook; and transmitting a channel by overlapping the spread information. Therefore, even if the number of encoded symbols increases, the number of symbols actually having a value is very sparsely configured such that the complexity of a transmitter and a receiver does not increase, and thus restoration performance improves.
US11101929B1
A method for execution by a computing device includes, receiving, from a requesting device, a request for a data segment of a data object that is or is to be stored in storage units of a content delivery network. The method further includes determining whether the data segment is stored in a cache memory of the content delivery network or in the storage units. When stored in the cache memory, the method includes retrieving the cached data segment, and sending it to the requesting device. When stored in the storage units, the method includes, sending read requests regarding the data segment to the storage units, receiving, in response to the read requests, at least a decode threshold number of encoded data slices, decoding the at least the decode threshold number of encoded data slices to reproduce the data segment, and sending the data segment to the requesting device.
US11101928B2
The present invention relates to a communication technique, which is a convergence of IoT technology and 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate beyond 4G system, and a system for same. The present invention can be applied to smart services (e.g. smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security- and safety-related services and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present invention provides a method, for transmitting data by a terminal, comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, information relating to sub-transmission blocks comprised in a transmission block; determining sub-transmission blocks on the basis of the number of code blocks comprised in the scheduled transmission block and the information relating to the sub-transmission blocks; and transmitting data to the base station by means of the sub-transmission blocks, wherein the sub-transmission block is a code block group comprising at least one code block.
US11101924B2
Methods and apparatus for transmitting and receiving broadcast signals are provided. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal includes encoding mobile data for forward error correction (FEC), encoding signaling data, forming data groups including the encoded mobile data and the encoded signaling data and transmitting a signal frame that includes the data groups.
US11101910B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide design that allows for assigning code sequences for UEs for use in RSMA.
US11101896B2
Photo-resonator optical detectors and optical receiver systems incorporating same, In one example, an optically resonant detector includes a housing having an optical window, a photodetector disposed within the housing, and an optical resonator disposed in optical alignment with the photodetector within the housing and positioned between the optical window and the photodetector, the optical resonator being configured to receive an input optical signal via the optical window and to provide an output optical signal to the photodetector.
US11101888B2
A system may involve transmitting data via a light-based data link. The aim of the invention is to establish a data connection which is as simple and efficient as possible. In order to achieve this, the system comprises various components which deflect the light containing the data and distribute it in a targeted manner. The invention also relates to various fields of application for the system, such as mechanical joints and robot joints, rail systems and luminaires.
US11101878B2
A method for design an optimized constellation set and labeling for satellite point to multi-point transmission systems including transmitters and receivers, wherein the transmitters are adapted to create signals overlay and are configured to allow simultaneous transmission of at least two different data streams (services) intended for users with different radio link qualities. In particular, N services are provided to users having a good radio link and a subset of services is maintained and guaranteed for the users having a lower radio link quality condition.
US11101877B2
Methods and systems are described for providing end-to-end beamforming. For example, end-to-end beamforming systems include end-to-end relays and ground networks to provide communications to user terminals located in user beam coverage areas. The ground segment can include geographically distributed access nodes and a central processing system. Return uplink signals, transmitted from the user terminals, have multipath induced by a plurality of receive/transmit signal paths in the end to end relay and are relayed to the ground network. The ground network, using beamformers, recovers user data streams transmitted by the user terminals from return downlink signals. The ground network, using beamformers generates forward uplink signals from appropriately weighted combinations of user data streams that, after relay by the end-end-end relay, produce forward downlink signals that combine to form user beams.
US11101876B2
A smart satellite system is capable of decision making and prioritization on the fly to optimize the use of downlink bandwidth to deliver prioritized data based upon opportunity and the resources of available payloads. By providing a satellite system with substantial processing power and a level of autonomy, the satellite is able to make decisions about capturing imagery data, including image data processing, object detection, image segmentation, and re-orientation of the satellite based upon the opportunity, from the satellite's perspective, for capturing image data of areas or objects of interest. Through the use of machine learning and in-orbit image analysis, the satellite may transmit only a subset of the captured images, portions of the captured images, or the result of image analysis, thereby efficiently using the downlink communication channel.
US11101872B2
A repeater has a spherical dielectric lens antenna, a donor feed unit supporting transmission and reception of signals through the lens antenna, a service feed unit supporting transmission and reception of signals through the lens antenna, and at least one interconnecting guided transmission medium providing a radio frequency transmission path between the donor feed unit and the service feed unit.
US11101869B2
A UE may receive a beam modification command that indicates a set of transmit beam indexes corresponding to a set of transmit beams of a base station, and each transmit beam index of the set of transmit beam indexes may indicate at least a transmit direction for transmitting a transmit beam by the base station. The UE may determine a set of receive beam indexes corresponding to receive beams of the UE based on the set of transmit beam indexes, and each receive beam index of the set of receive beam indexes may indicate at least a receive direction for receiving a receive beam by the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, a signal through at least one receive beam corresponding to at least one receive beam index included in the set of receive beam indexes.
US11101866B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a rank indication reporting method and apparatus, and an indication method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method may include: receiving at least two pieces of indication information, where each of the at least two pieces of indication information is used to indicate a maximum value of an RI that a network device associated with the indication information allows a terminal to report, and at least two network devices associated with the at least two pieces of indication information cooperate to provide a service for the terminal; and reporting RIs based on the at least two pieces of indication information.
US11101846B2
Embodiments are disclosed for a partitioned wireless communication system for a vehicle with redundant data links and power lines. In an embodiment, a system comprises: a communication gateway unit (CGU) located at a first location of the vehicle includes a communication processor, a first power supply, and a first data interface. A remote wireless transceiver unit (RWTU) located at a second location of the vehicle includes a second data interface coupled to the first data interface using redundant data links, a power interface coupled the first power supply to the RWTU using redundant power lines, and wireless transceiver(s) coupled to antenna(s) on the vehicle. The communication processor detects a loss of a first data link or a first power line, and in response to the detecting, selecting a second data link or second power line to transfer data or power, respectively, between the CGU and the RWTU.
US11101844B2
A PLC modem (131-133) is prompted to increase, starting from a predetermined minimum transmit power, a transmit power of data transmission on a PLC channel (112) at a given time or time period defined with respect to a mutual time reference of a DSL channel (111) and the PLC channel (112). A DSL modem (121) is prompted to measure a signal-to-noise value at the given time or time period defined with respect to the mutual time reference. Mitigation of interference 190 between the PLC channel (112) and the DSL channel (111) becomes possible.
US11101843B1
The present disclosure relates to selectively determining whether to attenuate frequencies in a received signal by converting the received signal into frequency-domain data, filtering frequency components that are likely to include an interference component, and calculating signal quality of the signal data before and after filtering.
US11101842B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide a repeater for beamforming a received signal at a first radio frequency via one or more scan angles or beamforming directions and then retransmitting and beamforming the transmitted signal at the first radio frequency via one or more scan angles or beamforming directions. Repeaters may perform heterodyning or downconverting on the received signal to reduce a frequency of the signal from the first frequency to an intermediate frequency (IF), and then band-pass filter the IF signal around a desired center frequency. The repeater may then heterodyne or upconvert the filtered IF signal back to the first frequency for the retransmission of the signal.
US11101840B1
A chip radio frequency package includes a substrate including a first cavity, first and second connection members, a core member, a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) disposed on an upper surface of the substrate, and a first front-end integrated circuit (FEIC) disposed in the first cavity. The core member includes a core insulating layer and a core via that penetrates the core insulating layer. The first connection member has a structure in which a first insulating layer and a first wiring layer are stacked. The second connection member has a second structure in which a second insulating layer and a second wiring layer are stacked. The RFIC inputs or outputs a base signal and a first radio frequency (RF) signal having a frequency higher than a frequency of the base signal, and the first FEIC inputs or outputs the first RF signal and a second RF signal.
US11101839B2
A high frequency filter includes series arm resonators and parallel arm resonators as acoustic wave resonators and at least one inductor, wherein capacitive components of the acoustic wave resonators constitute an LPF and an HPF as hybrid filters with an inductor or with an inductor and a capacitor, and the at least one inductor includes inductors as mount component inductors.
US11101836B2
A cover for a portable computing device includes a cover panel having a first portion of a solid silicone rubber sheet and a first stiffener panel that is fully encapsulated in the first portion of the solid silicone rubber sheet.
US11101834B2
An apparatus including a housing; sensors configured to sense one or more locations upon which a user is gripping the housing; sensors including antenna modules configured to transmit a signal based on the one or more locations upon which the user is gripping the housing. Another aspect relates to an apparatus including a housing; a set of antenna modules situated proximate at different surface locations along the housing; and a controller configured to operate the set of antenna modules to determine at least one or more electromagnetic leakage coupling between at least one pair of antenna modules of the set. In this aspect, the controller may be configured to select one or more of the set of antenna modules for transmitting a signal based on the one or more electromagnetic leakage coupling associated with one or more of the different locations where a user grips the housing, respectively.
US11101827B2
Disclosed is an electronic device which includes a housing that includes a first plate, a second plate facing away from the first plate, and a side member surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate, wherein the side member includes a first conductive portion including a first end and being elongated, a second conductive portion including a second end and a third end and being elongated, the second end being adjacent to the first end, a third conductive portion including a fourth end adjacent to the third end and being elongated, a first insulating portion disposed between the first end and the second end to contact the first end and the second end, and a second insulating portion disposed between the third end and the fourth end to contact the third end and the fourth end, a display that is exposed through the first plate, at least one wireless communication circuit that is electrically connected with a first point placed at the first conductive portion and adjacent to the first end, a first switching element electrically connected with a second point, which is placed at the second conductive portion and is adjacent to the third end, through a capacitive element and electrically connected with a third point placed at the second conductive portion and adjacent to the third end, and a fourth point placed at the third conductive portion and adjacent to the fourth end, at least one ground member that is electrically connected with a fifth point placed at the first conductive portion and more distant from the first end than the first point, a second switching element electrically connected with a sixth point placed at the second conductive portion and adjacent to the second end, a seventh point placed at the second conductive portion and adjacent to the third point, and an eighth point placed at the third conductive portion and more distant from the fourth end than the fourth point, and a control circuit that is configured to control the first switching element and the second switching element. Moreover, various embodiment found through the present disclosure are possible.
US11101821B2
A method for polar encoding includes: receiving a message including information bits; encoding the message using a first polar code to obtain a first codeword; and encoding the message using a second polar code to obtain a second codeword. The second codeword includes two parts, and the first part of the second codeword is same as the first codeword. The method for polar encoding also includes transmitting the first codeword to a receiver in a first transmission; and transmitting the second part of the second codeword in a second transmission without transmitting the first part of the second codeword when the receiver is unable to decode the message based on the first codeword.
US11101817B2
A transcoder is disclosed. The transcoder may comprise a buffer to store input encoded data. An index mapper may map an input dictionary to an output dictionary. A current encode buffer may store a modified current encoded data, which may be responsive to the input encoded data, the input dictionary, and the map from the input dictionary to the output dictionary. A previous encode buffer may store a modified previous encoded data, which may be responsive to the input encoded data, the input dictionary, and the map from the input dictionary to the output dictionary. A rule evaluator may generate an output stream responsive to the modified current encoded data in the current encode buffer, the modified previous encoded data in the previous encode buffer, and transcoding rules.
US11101810B1
Analog to digital conversion errors caused by non-linearities or other sources of distortion in an analog-to-digital converter are compensated for by use of a machine learning system, such as a neural network. The machine learning system is trained based on simulation or measurement data, which utilizes a filtered output of the analog-to-digital converter that has less distortion errors than the unfiltered output of the analog-to-digital converter. The effect on the analog to digital conversion errors by Process-Voltage-Temperature parameters may be incorporated into the training of the machine learning system.
US11101809B1
Some variations provide a metal vapor-density control system comprising: a first electrode; a multiphase second electrode that is electrically isolated from the first electrode, wherein the second electrode contains an ion-conducting phase capable of transporting mobile ions and an atom-transporting phase capable of storing and transporting neutral forms of the mobile ions; and an ion-conducting layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the ion-conducting layer is capable of transporting the mobile ions. The metal vapor-density control system may be contained within a vapor cell, a cold atom system, an atom chip, an atom gyroscope, an atomic clock, a communication system switch or buffer, a single-photon generator or detector, a gas-phase atom sensor, a nonlinear frequency generator, a precision spectroscopy instrument, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, an atom interferometer, a magneto-optical trap, an atomic-cloud imaging apparatus, or an atom dispenser system, for example.
US11101808B2
A frequency multiplier, a digital phase-locked loop circuit, and a frequency multiplication method, where the frequency multiplier includes a clock controller configured to: receive an output signal from a time-to-digital converter in the digital phase-locked loop circuit, and generate a control signal based on a duty cycle error of the output signal, a clock calibration circuit configured to: receive a reference clock signal, calibrate a duty cycle of the reference clock signal based on the control signal, and output a calibrated clock signal, and a clock frequency multiplier configured to: receive the calibrated clock signal, multiply a frequency of the calibrated clock signal, and output a frequency multiplied signal to the time-to-digital converter.
US11101803B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes first and second logic cells adjacent to each other on a substrate, and a mixed separation structure extending in a first direction between the first and second logic cells. Each logic cell includes first and second active fins that protrude from the substrate, the first and second active fins extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction and being spaced apart from each other in the first direction, and gate electrodes extending in the first direction and spanning the first and second active fins, and having a gate pitch. The mixed separation structure includes a first separation structure separating the first active fin of the first logic cell from the first active fin of the second logic cell; and a second separation structure on the first separation structure. A width of the first separation structure is greater than the gate pitch.
US11101801B2
An expandable logic scheme based on a chip package, includes: an interconnection substrate comprising a set of data buses for use in an expandable interconnection scheme, wherein the set of data buses is divided into a plurality of data bus subsets; and a first field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) integrated-circuit (IC) chip comprising a plurality of first I/O ports coupling to the set of data buses and at least one first I/O-port selection pad configured to select a first port from the plurality of first I/O ports in a first clock cycle to pass a first data between a first data bus subset of the plurality of data bus subsets and the first field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) integrated-circuit (IC) chip.
US11101800B1
An NAND or NOR logic device has multiple layers of ferromagnetic material separated from each other by non-magnetic layers of electrically conductive material of atomic thickness, sufficient to generate anti-magnetic response in a magnetized layer. The anti-magnetic response in a layer below a layer magnetized with a polarity is summed in a region which is coupled to an output, the output generating at least one of a NAND, or NOR logic function on applied input magnetization.
US11101796B2
An apparatus includes a capacitive device configured to provide bias power for a high-side switch, a gate drive path having variable resistance connected between the capacitive device and a gate of the high-side switch, wherein the gate drive path having variable resistance is of a first resistance value in response to a turn-on of the high-side switch, and the gate drive path having variable resistance is of a second resistance value in response to a turn-off of the high-side switch, and wherein the second resistance value is greater than the first resistance value, and a control switch connected between the gate of the high-side switch and ground.
US11101795B1
A semiconductor package includes a VLSI semiconductor die and one or more output circuits connected to supply power to the die mounted to a package substrate. The output circuit(s), which include a transformer and rectification circuitry, provide current multiplication at an essentially fixed conversion ratio, K, in the semiconductor package, receiving AC power at a relatively high voltage and delivering DC power at a relatively low voltage to the die. The output circuits may be connected in series or parallel as needed. A driver circuit may be provided outside the semiconductor package for receiving power from a source and driving the transformer in the output circuit(s), preferably with sinusoidal currents. The driver circuit may drive a plurality of output circuits. The semiconductor package may require far fewer interface connections for supplying power to the die.
US11101791B2
A power circuit switching device comprises two switching terminals, a high-voltage depletion mode transistor and a low-voltage enhancement mode transistor arranged in series between the two switching terminals, a first terminal for receiving a switching signal and electrically connected via a driver circuit to the gate of the high-voltage transistor, and a second terminal for receiving a control signal and electrically connected to the gate of the low-voltage transistor. The device comprises a normally-on protection circuit electrically connected between the second terminal and the gate of the high-voltage transistor to keep the high-voltage transistor in an off-state when the driver circuit is not electrically powered.
US11101787B2
Multiplexers are disclosed. A multiplexer can include a first filter and a second filter that are coupled to a common node. The second filter can include a first type of acoustic wave resonators (e.g., bulk acoustic wave resonators) and a series acoustic wave resonator of a second type (e.g., a surface acoustic wave resonator) that is coupled between the acoustic wave resonators of the first type and the common node. The first filter can provide a single-ended radio frequency signal. In certain embodiments, the first filter can be a receive filter and the second filter can be a transmit filter.
US11101786B1
A MEMS resonator comprising a baseplate wafer; a piezoelectric HF-VHF resonator that comprises a monolithic piezoelectric member having at least two separate spring piezoelectric support members integrally extending therefrom, each spring piezoelectric support member having at least a rounded corner; said piezoelectric resonator being attached to the baseplate wafer by said support members; wherein said monolithic piezoelectric member comprises first and second main surfaces joined by side edges; at least one of said side edges forming an angle of between 90 and 105 degrees with one of the first and second main surfaces.
US11101781B2
An amplifier device includes an amplifier circuitry, a controller circuitry, and an offset cancellation circuitry. The amplifier circuitry is configured to amplify a first input signal and a second input signal, in order to generate a first output signal and a second output signal. The controller circuitry is configured to generate a first control signal and a second control signal according to the first output signal and the second output signal. The offset cancellation circuitry is configured to provide a negative capacitor to the amplifier circuitry, and to adjust at least one current flowing through a circuit, which provides the negative capacitor, of the offset cancellation circuitry according to the first control signal and the second control signal, in order to cancel an offset of the amplifier circuitry.
US11101776B2
A common source preamplifier for a MEMS capacitive sensor is disclosed. The preamplifier is a single-stage amplifier employing negative feedback. The preamplifier provides stable gain independent of temperature and at the same time provides effective buffering for a subsequent stage. Further, the preamplifier may be configured to provide different values of gain. Furthermore, the preamplifier has lower noise and consumes lesser area and lesser power than prior art.
US11101765B1
An inverter system and method for driving an alternating current induction motor connected to a fluid transfer pump, including PWM control of power switching devices and fast-acting shutdown circuitry to disable the power switching devices when unintended or unexpected conditions are detected. The inverter system further includes start/stop safety logic, fault current detection and a fast acting current limit circuit incorporating a programmable current limit, operational status and parameter monitoring and communication, visual signalization, locked rotor detection, and the ability to incorporate closed loop control and remote operation into systems while they are in service.
US11101762B2
A linear motor actuator includes a plurality of stators mounted stationary relative to one another along a common actuation axis. A translator rod is mounted to the stators for linear motion relative to the stators along the actuation axis, wherein each stator is magnetically coupled to the translator rod to drive motion of the translator rod along the actuation axis.
US11101755B2
An arrangement contains an asynchronous machine, which, in generator operation, is configured to feed electric power into an AC network. Accordingly, the asynchronous machine can be dual-fed by a modular multi-stage converter in a matrix configuration. The asynchronous machine has a rotor and the modular multi-stage converter is connected to the rotor of the asynchronous machine.
US11101751B2
This method for controlling an asynchronous electrical motor (32) of a compressor system (10), comprises:—connecting (100) a capacitor bank (50) of the compressor system (10) in parallel with a first electrical motor (32) of the compressor system, this connection comprising connecting capacitors (52, 54, 56) of the capacitor bank (50) to windings of the stator of the first motor (32), by operating a switch unit (60) of the capacitor bank connected to an internal power bus (12);—starting (102) the first asynchronous electrical motor (32), by providing an input electrical current to the windings of the first motor (32) from the internal power bus (12);—disconnecting (108) the capacitor bank (50) from said first motor (32) once said motor (32) has started, this disconnection comprising disconnecting said capacitors (52, 54, 56) from the windings of the motor (32).
US11101747B2
In an example embodiment, a textile-based energy generator includes first and second electrode substrates, each of the first and second electrode substrates including a textile structure and an energy generation layer between the first and second electrode substrates, the energy generation layer on at least one of the first and second electrode substrates, the energy generation layer configured to generate electrical energy by at least one of generating friction between different materials and contacting and separating the different materials.
US11101734B2
A multi-level buck converter includes an input power source, an input capacitor, first to fourth switches, a clamp capacitor, an output inductor, a clamp switch, a clamp diode, an output capacitor, an output load, a current detection circuit, a voltage detection circuit and a control circuit. The current detection circuit detects whether an inductor current of the output inductor exceeds a predetermined current value, and if so, the output clamp signal controls the clamp switch to be turned on. The voltage detection circuit generates a duty cycle control signal according to an error between an output voltage and a target output voltage. The control circuit controls the first to the fourth switches to sequentially enter a first mode, a second mode, a third mode, and a fourth mode in a first part of a duty cycle.
US11101731B2
A switched-capacitor DC-DC power converter circuit is provided. The switched-capacitor DC-DC power converter circuit includes N input-side switched capacitor units and N output-side switched capacitor units. There is a charge recycling phase located between two adjacent conversion phases. In the 2N conversion phases, a bottom end of a capacitor of at least one of the input-side switched capacitor units and a bottom end of a capacitor of at least one of N output-side switched capacitor units is selectively electrically connected to an output terminal of the switched-capacitor DC-DC power converter circuit. In each charge recycling phase, bottom ends of two capacitors of N input-side switched capacitor units and N output-side switched capacitor units are electrically connected to each other through two of the input-side charge recycle switches and output-side charge recycle switches.
US11101728B2
A power converting apparatus includes: a boost circuit including a reactor supplied with first voltage output from an alternating-current power supply, a first leg including first upper-arm and lower-arm switching elements connected in series, and a second leg connected in parallel with the first leg and including second upper-arm and lower-arm switching elements connected in series, and boosting the first voltage; a first voltage detecting unit detecting the first voltage; a smoothing capacitor smoothing voltage output from the boost circuit; and a second voltage detecting unit detecting second voltage smoothed by the smoothing capacitor. When the second voltage is larger than the first voltage and is lower than or equal to twice the first voltage, a width of a second drive pulse to turn on the first upper-arm switching element is larger than a width of a first drive pulse to turn on the first lower-arm switching element.
US11101717B2
A magnet structure is a magnet structure for a TMR element which is an MR element. The magnet structure includes a bonded magnet compact that has a first main surface facing the TMR element, and a second main surface on a side opposite to the first main surface; and a tubular member that supports the bonded magnet compact. The bonded magnet compact has a gate portion which is provided on the second main surface and includes a gate mark formed by performing injection molding. The gate portion is provided at a position overlapping a center on the second main surface when seen from the second main surface side.
US11101707B2
This invention provides for a rare-earth permanent magnet-forming sintered body obtained by integrally sintering magnet material particles containing a rare-earth substance while shaping the magnet material particles, a rare-earth permanent magnet obtained by magnetizing the sintered body, and a rotary machine in which the permanent magnet is embedded.
US11101703B2
Foreign substance detection can be performed with a simple configuration in a power transmission system. A power transmitting apparatus that wirelessly transmits power to a power receiving apparatus, the power transmitting apparatus comprises: determination means for, in a case where an initial impedance value and the detected output impedance value do not match and there is no change in the output impedance value between before and after the transmission of a predetermined detection signal, determining that a foreign substance is present within a predetermined power transmission range, and, in a case where the initial impedance value and the detected output impedance value do not match and there is a change in the output impedance value between before and after the transmission of the predetermined detection signal, determining that a power receiving apparatus is present within the predetermined power transmission range.
US11101698B2
A wireless power reception device and a wireless communication method thereby are provided. The wireless communication method by the wireless power reception device may comprise the steps of: receiving a wireless power signal from a wireless power transmission device; measuring the strength of the wireless power signal; modulating the amplitude of the wireless power signal according to the measured strength of the wireless power signal; and performing communication with the wireless power transmission device by using the signal having the amplitude modulated.
US11101694B2
Provided are a method and an electronic device that may be coupled to a host device, the electronic device including a housing detachable to the host device, a light generator disposed on a first surface of the housing, a power transmission circuit disposed on a second surface of the housing, the second surface being opposite to the first surface, and a processor that controls the light generator to output a light, wherein an external electronic device moves to a predetermined position based on the outputted light, and control to wirelessly transmit power to the external electronic device via the power transmission circuit based on the external electronic device moving to the predetermined position.
US11101692B2
In a method for producing a system for inductively transmitting energy to a mobile part: a stepped bore is introduced into a floor; a sealing element is introduced into the stepped bore; a ring frame is held in place in the stepped bore with the aid of an alignment unit supported on the surface of the floor, the upper edge of the ring frame being aligned with the height of the floor or with the surface of a floor covering applied to the floor; the ring frame is set apart from the floor so that a gap region exists between the ring frame and the floor; casting compound is filled into the gap region; the alignment unit is removed; and a primary part is accommodated in the ring frame.
US11101689B2
Power systems, devices, and methods include a plurality of network interfaces for providing communication to, e.g., a management server, console, or user interface. One or more controllers coupled to power circuitry determine whether a preferred one of the network interfaces has connectivity, and directs communication over the preferred network interface in response to a determination that the preferred network interface does have connectivity. The controller directs communication over an alternate one of the network interfaces in response to a determination that the preferred network interface does not have connectivity.
US11101687B2
According to aspects of the disclosure, a method and system are provided for transferring a load between a primary power source and a secondary power source. In accordance with the disclosure, a method of transferring a load between a first power source and a second power source includes analyzing a plurality of power sources to identify one or more power sources providing a power greater than a threshold value. The method also includes selecting a power source from the identified one or more power sources providing power greater than the threshold value. The method further includes connecting the selected power source to a transfer mechanism. The method still further includes actuating the transfer mechanism, using power provided to the transfer mechanism by the selected power source, to transfer the load from a connection with the first power source to a connection with the second power source.
US11101677B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and associated systems for charging exchangeable energy storage devices positioned in a device-exchange station. The method includes, for example, (1) receiving demand information; (2) determining a charging plan for the device-exchange station at least partially based on a state-of-charge (SoC) of each of the exchangeable energy storage devices positioned in the device-exchange station, the demand information, and an available power of the device-exchange station; (3) generating a charging command for each of the exchangeable energy storage devices based on the charging rule for each of the exchangeable energy storage devices; and (4) transmitting the charging commands to the device-exchange station.
US11101672B2
A secondary battery protection apparatus includes a plurality of secondary battery protection apparatuses. One of two adjacent secondary battery protection apparatuses includes a voltage determination unit that is not affected by a current transfer signal and configured to receive, through a single communication line, the current transfer signal that is transmitted from the other of the two adjacent battery protection apparatuses through the single communication line and an information element based on changes of a voltage value of a voltage transfer signal, and a current determination unit that is not affected by the voltage transfer signal and configured to receive, through the single communication line, the voltage transfer signal that is transmitted from the other of the two adjacent secondary battery protection apparatuses through the single communication line and an information element based on changes of the current value of the current transfer signal.
US11101669B2
A method for determining a state of health of a rechargeable battery includes: determining a change in charge within an upper border and a lower border of a charging state window, the change in charge being determined by summing up current values measured within the charging state window; determining an actual state of health by scaling the change in charge with the width of the charging state window and dividing by an initial charging capacity of the battery; and determining an average state of health by calculating a sliding average of the actual state of health with at least one previous determined state of health.
US11101667B2
An energy storage apparatus includes: an energy storage device; a voltage dropper configured to drop a charge voltage for the energy storage device; a current switcher connected in parallel with the voltage dropper; a voltage detection unit configured to detect a voltage of the energy storage device; and a controller. When the voltage of the energy storage device exceeds a predetermined value, the controller causes the current switcher to switch a path of a charge current to the energy storage device to a path through the voltage dropper.
US11101662B2
A photovoltaic system with an inverter, at least one solar panel for providing electrical power, and electrical wiring for coupling electrical power from the at least one solar panel to the inverter. Also included is a transmitter for transmitting a messaging protocol along the electrical wiring, where the protocol includes a multibit wireline signal. Also included is circuitry for selectively connecting the electrical power from the at least one solar panel along the electrical wiring to the inverter in response to the messaging protocol.
US11101661B2
Provided are a device for suppressing potential induced degradation and a system. The device includes a rectification module, a non-isolated voltage conversion module and at least one capacitor. An input terminal of the rectification module is connected to an output terminal of a converter, the rectification module is configured to rectify an alternating current outputted by the converter into a direct current, the non-isolated voltage conversion module is configured to perform voltage conversion on the direct current outputted by the rectification module, and the voltage conversion is boost conversion or voltage reverse conversion. The capacitor is connected in parallel with an output terminal of the direct current, and either a positive electrode or a negative electrode of the capacitor is grounded.
US11101656B2
A reactive power compensation device is connected with an AC power system via a switch, and includes an arm circuit having a plurality of sub-modules connected in series, and a central control protection device. Each of the sub-modules includes a DC capacitor, and a bridge circuit for switching whether or not to output a voltage held in the DC capacitor. The central control protection device is configured to shift to a standby mode in which all semiconductor switching elements constituting the bridge circuit of each of the sub-modules are set to an opened state, with the switch being set to a closed state, when the AC power system has a power failure during operation of the reactive power compensation device, and to shift from the standby mode to a stop mode in which the switch is set to an opened state.
US11101654B2
A power switch configured for use in a multi-way switch system is provided. The power switch includes one or more switching elements configured to selectively couple a load to a power source. The power switch includes a power metering circuit and a communications circuit. The communications circuit can be configured to provide communications between the power switch and at least one other power switch in the switch system. The power switch can include a control device configured obtain data from the power metering circuit. The data can be indicative of power consumption of the load. The control device can be further configured to determine whether the power switch is a master power switch in the multi-way switch system based on the data.
US11101650B2
Method for the serial connection of additional sources of direct current to equalize the voltage level in a system when the load is increased. It includes the following steps: by means of wires, a first load is plugged in between the positive and negative terminals of the original source of direct current, observing polarity. In addition, one of the wires, connected to the negative terminal of the original source of direct current is the common negative wire, while the second wire, connected to the positive terminal of the original source of direct current, is the common positive wire.
US11101647B1
An overvoltage protection circuit which can be applied to a motor controller is provided. The overvoltage protection circuit comprises a voltage controller, a comparator, and a switching circuit so as to prevent damage to a driving circuit. The driving circuit is configured to supply a driving current to a motor coil.
US11101643B2
Provided is a method and system that includes a direct current solid state power controller that includes a plurality of switching devices connected in parallel for performing switching, one or more main transient voltage suppressors (TVSs) to perform voltage clamping, a plurality of parasitic inductances each connected in series with a switching device of the plurality of switching devices, and a plurality of local TVSs each connected in parallel with a series connection of a switching device and at least one parasitic inductor of the plurality of parasitic inductances, to dissipate energy stored within the at least one parasitic inductor of the plurality of parasitic inductances.
US11101641B2
Fault protection devices for electrical distribution systems and related reclosing methods are provided. One exemplary method of reclosing a switching element of a fault protection device after fault detection involves pulsing the switching element closed to enable a temporary current flow through the fault protection device and verifying absence of a fault condition based at least in part on the temporary current flow using a testing fault detection threshold. After verifying the absence of the fault condition, the method closes the switching element to enable current flow through the fault protection device, monitors the current flow through the fault protection device for the fault condition using the testing fault detection threshold for a transition period, and monitors the current flow through the fault protection device for the fault condition using a different fault detection threshold after the transition period.
US11101636B2
A squib driver circuit for deployment of a deployable restraint in a vehicle. The safety restraint may have a minimum firing voltage. The voltage regulator may regulate the input voltage to be the minimum firing voltage at the input terminal. The squib driver circuit may be formed on a single chip. The squib driver circuit may include a high side driver and a low side driver. An input terminal for receiving an input voltage used to fire the deployable restraint. The high side driver may supply current from the input terminal to the deployable restraint. The low side driver may supply current from deployable restraint to the electrical ground.
US11101635B2
A protective relay test equipment operation device according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a switch unit for, upon reception of a trip signal or a close signal from a protective relay, changing an electrical connection state between a first port configured to be electrically connected to test equipment that generates a test signal and a second port configured to be electrically connected to the protective relay; a measurement unit for measuring a voltage and a current between the first port and the second port during a test period in which an operation time point of the switch unit is a start time point or an end time point; and a calculation unit for calculating a plurality of time point-specific impedance values within the test period according to a measurement result of the measurement unit.
US11101627B2
An electrical connection box includes a block that houses a plurality of electronic components, a housing body in which an internal space for housing the block is formed, and engagement portions that are provided between the block and the housing body and fits the block to the housing body. The engagement portions include a first engagement portion corresponding to the one direction end of the block in a specific direction and a second engagement portion corresponding to the other direction end of the block in the specific direction. In the first engagement portion, an inclined surface of the guide receiving portion is formed. When the block is inserted into the housing body in the insertion direction, the inclined surface is formed by cutting out an end where the guide receiving portion faces a guide piece in the insertion direction.
US11101626B2
A corrugated tube that can be folded open, for holding cables, comprises: first and second corrugated tube shells, which have a respective plurality of first and second corrugated tube ribs extending peripherally around the respective corrugated tube shell, a joint section, which separates the corrugated tube ribs from each other and pivotably connects the corrugated tube shells to each other, at least one lip section, which is provided on at least one of the corrugated tube shells, and a locking device for locking the two corrugated tube shells to each other when the corrugated tube is brought from a folded-open state into a folded-together state. The locking device includes the corrugated tube ribs, and in the folded-together state, the second corrugated tube ribs extend around the first corrugated tube ribs interlockingly both in a radial direction and in a peripheral direction of the corrugated tube.
US11101625B2
The wire grip includes an upper grasping part provided at a base for grasping an electric wire from above; a lower grasping part arranged to face the upper grasping part with the electric wire interposed therebetween and provided to be movable in a vertical direction with respect to the base; an arrow part provided at a bottom part of the lower grasping part integrally with the lower grasping part or as a separate body; a supporting body arranged on a side opposite to the lower grasping part with the arrow part interposed therebetween, wherein the supporting body pushes the arrow part by a screw to be screwed with a lower supporting part provided at a bottom part of the base and extending in a longitudinal direction of the base; and a holding part for holding the lower grasping part to prevent it from being spaced from the base.
US11101614B1
An optic produces a beam of ultraviolet laser radiation from a beam of visible laser radiation and spatially separates the ultraviolet laser beam from the visible laser beam. The optic includes two crystals made of the same optically-nonlinear material that are contact bonded along a planar interface. One crystal has principle crystal axes that are oriented for type-I second-harmonic generation. The ultraviolet laser beam exits the optic through an uncoated surface of the other crystal. The principle crystal axes of the two crystals have different orientations and have reflection symmetry about the planar interface.
US11101611B2
An I/O connector assembly configured for making a cabled connection to an interior portion of a printed circuit board for at least some signals passing through the I/O connector. The I/O connector assembly may be assembled by mounting a cage to a printed circuit board. A receptacle connector, including cables extending from a rear of the connector, may be inserted through an opening in the top or rear of the cage. The receptacle connector may be positioned in the cage by at least one retention member on the cage. A plug, mating to the receptacle connector, also may be positioned by a retention member on the cage. Positioning both the plug and receptacle relative to the cage reduces the tolerance stackup of the assembly and enables the connectors to be designed with shorter wipe length, which enables higher frequency operation.
US11101610B2
Provided is a connector converter, comprising a shell, a circuit board assembly and a connecting wire, wherein the circuit board assembly comprises a digital signal board integrated with a digital circuit, the digital signal board being provided in the shell, and the digital signal board being provided with a plurality of output interfaces; the shell is provided with outer pockets positioned corresponding to the output interfaces; and an inner end of the connecting wire is provided with a metal plate, the metal plate being embedded in the digital signal board and electrically connected to the digital signal board via a connecting terminal, and an outer end of the connecting wire extends out to the outside of the shell and is provided with an input interface. The metal plate is in embedded connection with the digital signal board.
US11101608B2
A conductor assembly can include one or more conductors formed by a conductive material, and one or more filter cores formed integrally on and at least partially around the one or more conductors. The one or more filter cores can be formed of a material different than the conductive material and can be configured to reduce electromagnetic emissions from the one or more conductors.
US11101604B2
A connector includes a housing that allows a terminal lead-out and an electric wire lead-out to be drawn outward in a direction orthogonal to a connector insertion/removal direction, a shield shell, and a male screw member that secures the shield shell to a fixture base in a state where the connector mating is completed when the connector insertion/removal direction is defined as a screw axis, in which the shield shell includes a first shell and a second shell each of which having a through hole respectively that allows insertion of the male screw member and configured to sandwich the housing in the connector insertion/removal direction, and includes a first pressing plate and a second pressing plate that grip the terminal lead-out in the connector insertion/removal direction in the state where the connector mating is completed.
US11101592B2
A connector holding structure is provided with a plurality of connectors to be connected to a plurality of mating connectors arranged in an arrangement direction, a plurality of wires drawn out from the plurality of connectors, and a connector holding member including a plurality of connector mounting portions for respectively holding the plurality of connectors, the connector holding member collectively holding the plurality of connectors. The connector holding member includes a deflectable and deformable flexible portion between adjacent ones of the plurality of connector mounting portions.
US11101590B2
A female connector includes an upper retainer and a lower retainer to be mounted into a connector housing and movable along a retainer moving direction intersecting a terminal inserting direction between a partial locking position for allowing insertion of terminals into cavities and a full locking position for locking and retaining the terminals. The upper and lower retainers include upper cam pins and lower cam pins projecting in a pin projecting direction intersecting the retainer moving direction and different from the terminal inserting direction. The upper and lower cam pins are fit into upper cam grooves and lower cam grooves provided in a jig and move in the upper and lower cam grooves, whereby the upper and lower retainers move between the full locking position and the partial locking position.
US11101584B2
The present invention relates to the field of electronic device accessory technology and in particular to a data cable. The data cable includes a data cable plug and an adapter element which are in rotational connection. The data cable plug includes at least two metal sheets. A space for rotational connection of the adapter element is formed between two of the metal sheets. When the adapter element is rotationally connected in the space, not only can the electrical connection between the adapter element and the data cable plug be guaranteed, but also an angle of the adapter element relative to the data cable plug can be well adjusted. Therefore, use requirements of a user are satisfied. Meanwhile, the situation that a cable body connected to a power supply is bent repeatedly to adversely affect the service life of the data cable will be avoided.
US11101571B2
An antenna device having a circular array structure is disclosed. The disclosed device may include a multiple number of antennas positioned in a circular array and an upper board joined above the plurality of antennas, where each of the multiple antennas may include a reflector plate and at least one radiator joined to the reflector plate, and at least one FPCB joined to the reflector plates of a first antenna and a second antenna adjacent to each other from among the multiple antennas may further be included. The disclosed device can alleviate the performance degradation incurred by narrow reflector plates in an antenna device having a circular array structure and can provide radiation properties tantamount to essentially expanding the reflector plate of each antenna in an antenna device having a circular array structure.
US11101569B2
This invention describes the technology of toroidal CATR (compact antenna test range) for generating multiple directional plane waves propagate toward the center axis of QZ (quiet zone). The toroidal CATR consists of torus as main reflector, sub-reflectors, and the corresponding feed antennas of sub-reflectors. This invention is to provide multiple directional plane waves propagating toward the center axis of torus which is also the center axis of QZ. The performances of QZ in this invention are with larger size of QZ and better electrical performance inside QZ. Due to the capability of multiple directional plane waves propagating toward the center axis of QZ, the complexity of positioner (turntable) for AUT (antenna under test) or radar target RCS (radar cross section) in three dimensional power pattern measurement will be simplified.
US11101566B2
An electronic package and a method for fabricating the same are provided. A resist layer and a support are formed on a first substrate having a first antenna installation area. A second substrate having a second antenna installation area is laminated on the resist layer and the support. The resist layer is then removed. The support keeps the first substrate apart from the second substrate at a distance to ensure that the antenna transmission between the first antenna installation area and the second antenna installation area can function normally.
US11101559B2
Receive diversity combining uses signals received at multiple antennas and combine them to obtain a higher overall signal to noise ratio. Multi-level ranking is employed to determine the weight assigned to each channel and, once the channels are weighted the weighted signals are added together. In a two-level example the first level ranks the signals according to fidelity of the signal. This is done by calculating cross correlation coefficients, where highest coefficient indicates best fidelity. The second level ranks the channels according to peak to average power ratio. The lowest value indicates the best channel. The two rankings are combined to generate the weight coefficient for each channel prior to combining the signals from all the channels.
US11101557B2
A mechanically steered, horizontally polarized, directional antennae for aerial vehicles, such as UAVs. The antenna system can include a planar substrate with a horizontally polarized antenna embedded therein. A rotation member, on one end, can be attached to the planar substrate, and can extend from an external surface of the aerial vehicle. An actuator can be coupled to the rotation member to rotate the rotation member. A communication controller of the aerial vehicle can control the actuator to beam horizontally polarized radiofrequency (RF) waves to a target receiver or receive a wave front from a target transmitter.
US11101550B2
A base station antenna is disclosed. The disclosed antenna includes: a reflector plate made of a metal material; a multiple number of radiators formed on the reflector plate and forming one or more arrays; and conductive rods positioned on both sides of each of the radiators, where the conductive rods are formed in parallel with the arrays formed by the radiators.
US11101531B2
A tunable filter for adjustable filtering between a minimum frequency and a maximum frequency includes a transmission line designed to transmit a signal and having longitudinal axis. The tunable filter further includes a two-dimensional capacitor array including step-tunable capacitors located along the transmission line, a first dimension of the two-dimensional capacitor array being along the longitudinal axis and a second dimension of the two-dimensional capacitor array being located perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The tunable filter further includes a controller coupled to each of the step-tunable capacitors and designed to control each of the step-tunable capacitors independently to be in a biased mode or in an unbiased mode based on a desired frequency response of the tunable filter.
US11101525B2
Disclosed herein are novel or improved microporous battery separator membranes, separators, batteries including such separators, methods of making such membranes, separators, and/or batteries, and/or methods of using such membranes, separators and/or batteries. Further disclosed are laminated multilayer polyolefin membranes with exterior layers comprising one or more polyethylenes, which exterior layers are designed to provide an exterior surface that has a low pin removal force. Further disclosed are battery separator membranes having increased electrolyte absorption capacity at the separator/electrode interface region, which may improve cycling. Further disclosed are battery separator membranes having improved adhesion to any number of coatings. Also described are battery separator membranes having a tunable thermal shutdown where the onset temperature of thermal shutdown may be raised or lowered and the rate of thermal shutdown may be changed or increased. Also disclosed are multilayer battery separator membranes having enhanced web handling performance during manufacturing processes and coating operations.
US11101519B2
The present disclosure relates to a casing for a battery pack and a battery pack. The casing has a receiving space and an opening in communication with the receiving space, the receiving space is formed by a wall portion of the casing, and the wall portion is formed from two or more stacked base plates, between which a plurality of cavities are formed. By forming a plurality of cavities in the wall portion, the casing for a battery pack provided by the present disclosure not only can improve the bearing capacity and the impact resistance of the casing, but also can achieve a thermal management of the battery assembly by filling the plurality of cavities with a phase change material or cooling liquid, which can further improve the mechanical property of the casing with a relatively light weight and relatively high reliability.
US11101518B2
In one aspect, the present application provides a multilayer sheet including a metal layer, a bonding layer arranged on a first surface of the metal layer, and a buffer layer arranged on a second surface of the metal layer, wherein the buffer layer is provided with a hole. The present application further provides a battery including an electrode assembly, and a packaging bag prepared from the multilayer sheet. Wherein the packaging bag packages the electrode assembly. It is an object of the present application to provide a multilayer sheet and battery capable of reducing vibration damage.
US11101515B2
The present disclosure provides a battery pack and a vehicle. The battery pack comprises a battery module, a box assembly and a first adhesive member. The battery module comprises first batteries arranged sequentially in a horizontal direction. The first battery comprises an electrode assembly and a case, and the electrode assembly is received in the case. The electrode assembly comprises a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate and a separator. The box assembly has a connection portion, and the connection portion is positioned at a side of the battery module in the vertical direction. An outer surface of the case comprises a first surface, and the first surface is connected with the connection portion via the first adhesive member. An area A of the first surface and an elastic modulus B of the first adhesive member satisfy a relationship: 0.02 cm2/MPa≤A/B≤9 cm2/MPa.
US11101513B2
Techniques regarding a thin film battery, which can comprise one or more sealing layers, and a method of manufacturing thereof are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can regard an apparatus that can comprise a thin film battery cell encapsulated in a multi-layer stack comprising an adhesive layer located between a first substrate layer and a second substrate layer. The apparatus can also comprise a metal sealing layer at least partially surrounding the multi-layer stack.
US11101501B2
An example electrolyte includes a solvent, a lithium salt, and an additive selected from the group consisting of a mercaptosilane, a mercaptosiloxane, and combinations thereof. The electrolyte may be used in a method for making a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layer on a surface of an electrode. A negative electrode structure may be formed from the method.
US11101499B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a nonaqueous electrolytic solution and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution secondary battery capable of showing high output characteristics at a low temperature even after the battery is used to some extent, and capable of showing good high-rate properties, and further capable of improving safety of batteries. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes a nonaqueous solvent, an electrolyte dissolved in the nonaqueous solvent, (I) a difluoro ionic complex (1) represented by the general formula (1), and (II) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a specific cyclic phosphazene compound, siloxane compound, aromatic compound, cyclohexene compound, phosphoric acid ester compound, fluorinated linear ether compound, fluorinated cyclic ether compound, and boric acid ester compound, and 95 mol % or more of the difluoro ionic complex (1) is a difluoro ionic complex (1-Cis) in a cis configuration represented by the general formula (1-Cis).
US11101494B2
A method for manufacturing a battery assembly provided by the present invention includes a step of measuring a stacking direction length of a stacked body including a predetermined number of unit cells (12) constituting a battery assembly (10) and arranged in the stacking direction; and a step of bundling a body (20) to be bundled that includes the stacked body. Here, the body to be bundled is provided with length adjusting means (40) for converging a spread in stacking direction length. The bundling step is implemented by setting the length adjusting means according to the stacking direction length of the stacked body, so that a length of the battery assembly in the stacking direction is a stipulated length (LT) and a bundling pressure of the body to be bundled is a stipulated pressure.
US11101493B2
The present disclosure provides a secondary battery and an electrode plate thereof. The electrode member comprises an insulating substrate, a first conducting layer and an active material layer; the first conducting layer is provided on a surface of the insulating substrate, the active material layer is provided at a side of the first conducting layer away from the insulating substrate; the first conducting layer is provided with a stripe-shape groove extending in a height direction, the stripe-shape groove is used for releasing stress of the first conducting layer. The secondary battery comprises an electrode assembly, the electrode assembly comprises the electrode member.
US11101487B2
A fuel cell battery includes a plurality of stacks. Each of the stacks is a module containing a cell, and a base plate and a cover plate sandwiching the cell therebetween. In a state where the stacks are stacked together with a gasket being sandwiched between two adjacent stacks of the stacks, the two adjacent stacks are connected to each other by a connecting bolt. The gasket has, at a central part thereof, a contact plate that is elastic and electrically conductive. When the gasket is sandwiched between the two adjacent stacks, the contact plate is brought into abutment with the cover plate and the base plate.
US11101465B2
Systems and methods are provided for a reaction barrier between an electrode active material and a current collector. An electrode may comprise an active material, a metal foil, and a polymer. The polymer (such as polyamide-imide (PAI)) may be configured to provide a carbonized barrier between the active material and the metal foil after pyrolysis.
US11101445B2
A flexible OLED display device includes: a flexible substrate, a buffer layer, an OLED light emitting layer, and a thin film encapsulation layer; wherein a portion of the thin film encapsulation layer located in the non-display area has a thickness from a position close to the display area to a position away from the display area The flexible substrate and a portion of the thin film encapsulation layer located in the first bezel area and the second bezel area are bent along a direction away from the display surface.
US11101438B2
According to a flexible light-emitting device production method of the present disclosure, after an intermediate region and flexible substrate regions of a plastic film of a multilayer stack are divided from one another, the interface between the flexible substrate regions and a glass base is irradiated with lift-off light. The multilayer stack is separated into a first portion and a second portion while the multilayer stack is in contact with a stage. The first portion includes a plurality of light-emitting devices which are in contact with the stage. The light-emitting devices include a plurality of functional layer regions and the flexible substrate regions. The second portion includes the glass base and the intermediate region. The stage has ejection holes in a region which is to face the intermediate region, from which a fluid is ejected in the separation step.
US11101429B2
A method of forming integrated circuits includes forming Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) stack layers, depositing a conductive etch stop layer over the MTJ stack layers, depositing a conductive hard mask over the conductive etch stop layer, and patterning the conductive hard mask to form etching masks. The patterning is stopped by the conductive etch stop layer. The method further includes etching the conducive etch stop layer using the etching masks to define patterns, and etching the MTJ stack layers to form MTJ stacks.
US11101428B2
A method of manufacturing a monocrystalline layer, comprises the following successive steps: providing a donor substrate comprising a piezoelectric material of composition ABO3, where A consists of at least one element from among Li, Na, K, H, Ca; and B consists of at least one element from among Nb, Ta, Sb, V; providing a receiver substrate, transferring a layer called the “seed layer” from the donor substrate on to the receiver substrate, such that the seed layer is at the bonding interface, followed by thinning of the donor substrate layer; and growing a monocrystalline layer of composition A′B′O3 on piezoelectric material ABO3 of the seed layer where A′ consists of a least one of the following elements Li, Na, K, H; B′ consists of a least one of the following elements Nb, Ta, Sb, V; and A′ is different from A or B′ is different from B.
US11101420B2
Disclosed are a high performance thermoelectric device and a method of manufacturing the same at ultra-high speed. The high performance thermoelectric device includes segmented structures which may provide an optimal match between the thermoelectric materials and the environmental temperature difference; blocking layers and stress-buffering layers which can reduce interface element migration and longitudinal contact thermal expansion stress and increase bonding strength; phonon scattering layers and negative thermal expansion buffering layers inserted and fixing the thermoelectric leg, thereby increasing internal thermal resistance and improving transverse thermo-match for the high performance thermoelectric device; an inner package and an outer package, thus avoiding sublimation and oxidation of the thermoelectric materials and providing the thermoelectric device with enhanced impact resistance from outside.
US11101418B1
Described are light emitting apparatus with self-aligned elements and techniques for manufacturing such light emitting apparatus. In certain embodiments, a light emitting apparatus includes a mesa formed by a plurality of semiconductor layers. The light emitting apparatus further includes an electrical contact on one of the semiconductor layers and a spacer around the electrical contact. The spacer is aligned with respect to the electrical contact, which permits etching around the spacer to define the shape of the mesa in such a way that the mesa is also aligned with respect to the electrical contact. In particular, the electrical contact is substantially centered between opposing sidewalls of the mesa.
US11101414B2
A method for manufacturing a wavelength conversion member includes: irradiating plasma on surfaces of phosphor particles; mixing the phosphor particles irradiated by plasma and a liquid form resin member to form a slurry; and curing the slurry.
US11101412B2
A method for producing an output coupling element and an output coupling element are disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes producing a suspension having quantum dots in a suspension medium, wherein each quantum dot comprises a core having a semiconductor material, directly applying the suspension onto a surface of an optoelectronic component and/or onto a surface of a carrier and removing the suspension medium for producing the output coupling element, wherein the output coupling element is matrix-free and transparent to radiation of a red range and/or a IR range.
US11101402B2
A method for manufacturing light emitting diodes and a light emitting diode are disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes providing a light emitting diode chip with a growth substrate and with a semiconductor layer sequence for generating radiation, soldering chip contact surfaces located on a chip underside of the semiconductor layer sequence facing away from the growth substrate to carrier contact surfaces of a carrier, applying a liquid connector transparent to the radiation to a substrate upper side of the growth substrate facing away from the semiconductor layer sequence, fastening a fluorescent body to the substrate upper side, the connector being partially displaced by the fluorescent body from the substrate upper side so that chip side faces are predominantly covered by the connector and generating a reflector on outer faces of the connector facing away from the light emitting diode chip on the chip side faces, the outer faces pointing in a direction away from the carrier.
US11101399B1
A single-photon detector is provided. The detector has multiple avalanche layers. It has an avalanche photodiode (APD) structure using single photon. The APD is made of indium aluminum arsenide (InAlAs). At least two avalanche layers are designed. When the layer for avalanche is numbered only one and the gain is very big, the speed will be deteriorated very quickly. With the design of two avalanche layers in the present invention for the very big gain, the speed deterioration can be suppressed. After measuring, the present invention shows a faster speed as compared to prior arts. It proves that, by using more than two avalanche layers, the present invention effectively improves the feature of single-photon detector. Hence, the present invention is especially suitable for single-photon detection.
US11101390B2
A manufacturing method of a sensing module for an optical fingerprint sensor is provided. A plurality of photo detectors are formed in a light sensing layer. The photo detectors are arranged in a sensing array. A plurality of collimators are formed in a light filter layer. The collimators are divided into a plurality of collimator groups corresponding to the photo detectors. The collimator groups are arranged in a collimator group array. The light sensing layer is attached to the light filter layer so that the light filter layer is disposed on the light sensing layer and the collimator group array of the light filter layer is aligned with the sensing array of the light sensing layer. Each of the collimator groups corresponds to one of the photo detectors, and aligned with and disposed above the corresponding photo detector. Each of the collimator groups comprises the same number of collimators arranged in a specific pattern.
US11101389B2
The present disclosure describes aspects of a dual-use semiconductor device for solar power and data storage. In some aspects, a dual-use semiconductor device is selectively configured to generate power by coupling regions having a same type of doping to form a PN junction by which power is generated in response to light. The generated power may be provided to a load coupled to contacts (e.g., front and backside contacts) of the dual-use semiconductor device. The dual-use semiconductor device is also selectively configurable for data storage by decoupling the regions of the same type of doping to provide respective data storage access terminals for accessing (e.g., writing or reading) a bit value that is stored as a level of charge by a floating-gate structure of the dual-use semiconductor device. By so doing, solar power arrays implemented with dual-use semiconductor devices may also provide data storage functionality.
US11101380B2
An apparatus, an integrated circuit die, and a method of fabricating a group III-nitride (III-N) integrated RF front-end circuit are disclosed. The apparatus includes a III-N integrated radio frequency (RF) front-end circuit that includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of functional blocks, each of the plurality of functional blocks comprising a III-N structure on the semiconductor substrate. The III-N integrated RF front-end circuit is to be coupled to an antenna.
US11101377B2
Techniques and mechanisms for providing efficient transistor functionality of an integrated circuit. In an embodiment, a transistor device comprises a first body of a high mobility semiconductor and a second body of a wide bandgap semiconductor. The first body adjoins each of, and is disposed between, the second body and a gate dielectric layer of the transistor. The second body extends between, and variously adjoins, each of a source of the transistor and a drain of the transistor. A location of the second body mitigates current leakage that might otherwise occur via the first body. In another embodiment, a mobility of the first body is equal to or greater than 100 cm2/V·s, wherein a bandgap of the second body is equal to or greater than 2.0 eV.
US11101373B2
An insulated gate bipolar transistor includes: a semiconductor substrate; an emitter electrode arranged on one main surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a trench gate arranged in a rectangular trench having a rectangular shape and disposed on the one main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a body contact region and an emitter region in a rectangular region surrounded by the rectangular trench. The rectangular trench has a straight trench that constitutes one side of the rectangular trench. The body contact region is in contact with a side of the straight trench. The emitter region is in contact with the side of the straight trench, and is adjacent to the body contact region. The body contact region has a protrusion portion protruding in a depth direction from a center portion of the body contact region.
US11101369B2
A fin-type semiconductor device includes a semiconductor structure having a plurality of fins formed in a substrate and a plurality of trenches each disposed between two adjacent fins, a spacer in each of the trenches, and an etch stop layer disposed below an upper surface of the spacer.
US11101368B2
A method of forming a crystallized semiconductor layer includes forming an insulating crystallization inducing layer on a base substrate; forming a semiconductor material layer on a side of the insulating crystallization inducing layer away from the base substrate by depositing a semiconductor material on the insulating crystallization inducing layer, the semiconductor material being deposited at a deposition temperature that induces crystallization of the semiconductor material; forming an alloy crystallization inducing layer including an alloy on a side of the semiconductor material layer away from the insulating crystallization inducing layer; and annealing the alloy crystallization inducing layer to further induce crystallization of the semiconductor material to form the crystallized semiconductor layer. Annealing the alloy crystallization inducing layer is performed to enrich a relatively more conductive element of the alloy to a side away from the base substrate, thereby forming an annealed crystallization inducing layer.
US11101367B2
A method for forming a device structure provides for forming a fin of a semiconductor material. A first contact is formed on the fin. A second contact is formed on the fin and spaced along a length of the fin from the first contact. A self-aligned gate electrode is formed on the fin that is positioned along the length of the fin between the first contact and the second contact.
US11101363B2
A method forms an HEMT transistor of the normally off type, including: a semiconductor heterostructure, which comprises at least one first layer and one second layer, the second layer being set on top of the first layer; a trench, which extends through the second layer and a portion of the first layer; a gate region of conductive material, which extends in the trench; and a dielectric region, which extends in the trench, coats the gate region, and contacts the semiconductor heterostructure. A part of the trench is delimited laterally by a lateral structure that forms at least one first step. The semiconductor heterostructure forms a first edge and a second edge of the first step, the first edge being formed by the first layer.
US11101362B2
A device includes a substrate, a first zirconium-containing oxide layer, a first metal oxide layer and a top electrode. The first zirconium-containing oxide layer is over a substrate and having ferroelectricity or antiferroelectricity. The first metal oxide layer is in contact with the first zirconium-containing oxide layer. The first metal oxide layer has a thickness less than a thickness of the first zirconium-containing oxide layer. The top electrode is over the first zirconium-containing oxide layer.
US11101358B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor area of a first conductive type disposed in a surface layer portion of the semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode disposed over the first semiconductor area and extending in a first direction, a dummy gate electrode disposed over the semiconductor substrate away from the gate electrode and extending in the first direction, a second semiconductor area of a second conductive type disposed, in the surface layer portion of the semiconductor substrate, between the gate electrode and the dummy gate electrode, and an interconnect connected to the second semiconductor area, wherein a concentration of carrier of a first carrier type in the semiconductor substrate under the dummy gate electrode and alongside the second semiconductor area is lower than a concentration of majority carrier in the first semiconductor area, the first carrier type being a same carrier type as the majority carrier.
US11101354B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming an isolation structure in the semiconductor substrate. The isolation structure surrounds a first active region of the semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming a semiconductor strip structure over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor strip structure extends across the first active region and extends over the isolation structure, the semiconductor strip structure has a first doped region and a spacing region connected to the first doped region, the first doped region extends across the first active region, the spacing region is over the isolation structure, and the spacing region is an undoped region. The method includes performing an implantation process over the spacing region. The method includes forming a metal silicide layer over the semiconductor strip structure to continuously cover the first doped region and the spacing region.
US11101351B2
A method of manufacturing a group III nitride semiconductor substrate may comprise introducing group III element vacancies to a first region of the group III nitride semiconductor substrate. The method may comprise introducing an acceptor element to a second region of the group III nitride semiconductor substrate. The second region may contact the first region at least in part. The method may comprise performing annealing to activate the acceptor element in the second region.
US11101346B2
This invention discloses a semiconductor power device formed on a semiconductor substrate comprises an active cell area and a termination area disposed near edges of the semiconductor substrate. The termination area comprises a plurality of duplicated units wherein each unit includes at least two trenches filled with a conductive trench material having a mesa area between adjacent trenches wherein the trenches and the mesa areas within each of the duplicated units are electrically shunt together. In the termination area each of the trenches in the duplicated units has a buried guard ring dopant region disposed below a bottom surface of the trenches.
US11101345B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer that has a main surface and that includes an active region, a first-conductivity-type first impurity region formed at a surface layer portion of the main surface of the semiconductor layer, a second-conductivity-type field limit region formed along a peripheral edge of the active region in a surface layer portion of the first impurity region, and a second-conductivity-type low concentration region that has a second-conductivity-type impurity concentration lower than a second-conductivity-type impurity concentration of the field limit region and that is formed along a peripheral edge of the field limit region in a region on a side opposite to the active region with respect to the field limit region in the surface layer portion of the first impurity region.
US11101341B2
A light-emitting display device includes: a first substrate, a subpixel on the substrate, a contact area on the first substrate, a cover layer including first to third cover layer portions separated from each other, a first passivation layer, the first passivation layer exposing part of the third cover layer portion, a second passivation layer, a pixel electrode layer including a plurality of pixel electrode layer portions including: a first pixel electrode layer portion, and a second pixel electrode layer portion, an organic insulating layer, the organic insulating layer including: an opening exposing part of the first pixel electrode layer, and a contact hole exposing part of the second pixel electrode layer, an organic emissive layer, and a common electrode layer electrically connected to the second pixel electrode layer, wherein the opening includes a first undercut shape and a second undercut shape.
US11101337B2
An organic light-emitting diode display may have thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. The display and substrate may have rounded corners. A pixel definition layer may be formed on the thin-film transistor circuitry. Openings in the pixel definition layer may be provided with emissive material overlapping respective anodes for organic light-emitting diodes. A cathode layer may cover the array of pixels. A ground power supply path may be used to distribute a ground voltage to the cathode layer. The ground power supply path may be formed from a metal layer that is shorted to the cathode layer using portions of a metal layer that forms anodes, may be formed from a mesh shaped metal pattern, may have L-shaped path segments, and may include laser-deposited metal on the cathode layer. Data lines may be formed from metal layers in the active area to accommodate the rounded corners of the display.
US11101334B2
A thin film display element (100) has at least one emissive area (103) in the display region (101) and a layer structure (104) comprising: a first patterned conductor layer (110) comprising a first display electrode (111) in the display region; a second patterned conductor layer (120) comprising a second display electrode (121) in the display region; and an emissive layer (130) between the first and the second conductor layers configured to emit light in the at least one emissive area. The patterned conductor layers further comprise a first touch electrode (141) and a second touch electrode (142) in the display region, the first and the second touch electrodes forming a touch sensor (140) for capacitive touch or proximity sensing.
US11101331B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel including a base layer in which an active area and a peripheral area adjacent to the active area are defined, and a plurality of pixels, and a cover panel including a window layer, an optical filter layer disposed on a rear surface of the window layer, and a color filter layer disposed on the optical filter layer and including quantum dots. The optical filter layer includes a partition layer in which an opening is defined and which includes an organic material, a light blocking layer disposed on the partition layer, and a reflective layer disposed in the opening. The light blocking layer includes a metal.
US11101324B2
A memory cell includes a first conductive line, a lower electrode, a carbon nano-tube (CNT) layer, a middle electrode, a resistive layer, a top electrode and a second conductive line. The first conductive line is disposed over a substrate. The lower electrode is disposed over the first conductive line. The carbon nano-tube (CNT) layer is disposed over the lower electrode. The middle electrode is disposed over the carbon nano-tube layer, thereby the lower electrode, the carbon nano-tube (CNT) layer and the middle electrode constituting a nanotube memory part. The resistive layer is disposed over the middle electrode. The top electrode is disposed over the resistive layer, thereby the middle electrode, the resistive layer and the top electrode constituting a resistive memory part. The second conductive line is disposed over the top electrode.
US11101323B2
A method is presented for forming vertical crossbar resistive random access memory (RRAM) cells. The method includes forming a substantially U-shaped bottom electrode over a substrate, filling the U-shaped bottom electrode with a first conductive material, capping the U-shaped bottom electrode with a dielectric cap, depositing a high-k material, and forming a top electrode such that active areas of the RRAM cells are vertically aligned and the U-shaped bottom electrode is shared between neighboring RRAM cells.
US11101322B2
A method is presented for forming vertical crossbar resistive random access memory (RRAM) cells. The method includes forming a substantially U-shaped bottom electrode over a substrate, filling the U-shaped bottom electrode with a first conductive material, capping the U-shaped bottom electrode with a dielectric cap, depositing a high-k material, and forming a top electrode such that active areas of the RRAM cells are vertically aligned and the U-shaped bottom electrode is shared between neighboring RRAM cells.
US11101320B2
A weight cell, an electronic device and a device are provided. The weight cell includes a first resistive memory element and a second resistive memory element, a select transistor, and a layer of Spin Hall (SH) material disposed between the first resistive memory element and the second resistive memory element, the layer of the SH material including a first contact and a second contact. The first contact of the SH material is connected to a drain of the select transistor and the second contact of the SH material is connected to an external word line.
US11101319B2
A semiconductor storage device includes first and second wirings that are in a first layer above the substrate, extend along a first direction, and are adjacent to each other along a second direction, third and fourth wirings that are in a second layer above the first layer, extend along the second direction, and are adjacent to each other along the first direction, first and second memory cells on the first wiring, and a third memory cell on the second wiring. The first to third memory cells each include a variable resistance element and a switching element. The switching element of the first memory cell includes a gate coupled to the third wiring. The switching elements of the second and third memory cells each include a gate coupled to the fourth wiring. The variable resistance elements of the first to third memory cells are formed with equal distances from each other.
US11101315B2
Each semiconductor chip of a detector comprises a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of photodetector units, an insulating layer formed on a front face of the semiconductor substrate, a common electrode arranged on the insulating layer, a readout line for electrically connecting a quenching resistance of each photodetector unit and the common electrode to each other, and a through electrode extending from the common electrode to a rear face of the semiconductor substrate through a through hole of the semiconductor substrate.
US11101301B2
Disclosed are an array substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, a display panel and a display apparatus. The array substrate comprises several pixel units located on a base substrate and arranged in an array, with each of the pixel units comprising a thin-film transistor, and the thin-film transistor comprising a polycrystalline silicon active layer, wherein a length extension direction of a channel of the thin-film transistor is parallel to a pre-set direction; and the pre-set direction is a scanning direction of an excimer laser beam used when forming the polycrystalline silicon active layer.
US11101297B2
A display device includes a first transparent substrate, a first circuit board, a second circuit board, and a thin film transistor (TFT) array. The first transparent substrate includes a body and a protruding portion which are connected to each other. The protruding portion has an outer surface facing away from the body. The first circuit board is adjacent to the protruding portion, and the first circuit board and the protruding portion are located on the same side of the body together. The first circuit board has an inner surface facing the body, and a vertical projection of the inner surface on the protruding portion is located between the outer surface and the body. The second circuit board is disposed on the protruding portion and extends to the first circuit board. The TFT array is disposed on the body.
US11101292B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device including a plurality of rows of IO cells has a configuration capable of avoiding a latchup error without causing an increase in area. The device includes a first IO cell row placed closest to an edge of a chip and a second IO cell row placed adjacent to a core region side of the first IO cell row. Each of the IO cells of the first and second IO cell rows has a high power supply voltage region and a low power supply voltage region provided separately in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the IO cells are lined up. The IO cell rows are placed so that the high power supply voltage regions of these rows are mutually opposed.
US11101290B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor memory device includes forming a first polysilicon layer on a conductive layer, forming a second polysilicon layer stacked on the first polysilicon layer, and forming a third polysilicon layer stacked on the second polysilicon layer. In the method, a stacked structure of the first, second and third polysilicon layers is patterned into a plurality of stacked structures spaced apart from each other on the conductive layer. Ferroelectric dielectric layers are formed on respective second polysilicon layers of the plurality of stacked structures, and metal layers are formed on the ferroelectric dielectric layers.
US11101280B2
A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming a stack comprising vertically-alternating first tiers and second tiers comprising memory-block regions having channel-material strings therein. Conductor-material contacts are directly against the channel material of individual of the channel-material strings. First insulator material is formed directly above the conductor-material contacts. The first insulator material comprises at least one of (a) and (b), where (a): silicon, nitrogen, and one or more of carbon, oxygen, boron, and phosphorus, and (b): silicon carbide. Second insulator material is formed directly above the first insulator material and the conductor-material contacts. The second insulator material is devoid of each of the (a) and (b). Third insulator material is formed directly above the second insulator material, the first insulator material, and the conductor-material contacts. The third insulator material comprises at least one of the (a) and (b). At least one horizontally-elongated isolation structure is formed in the first and second insulator materials and in a top part of the stack in individual of the memory-block regions. Additional methods, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US11101276B2
Embodiments of semiconductor structures including word line contact structures for three-dimensional memory devices and fabrication methods for forming word line contact structures are disclosed. The semiconductor structures include a staircase structure having a plurality of steps, and each step includes a conductive layer disposed over a dielectric layer. The semiconductor structures further include a barrier layer disposed over a portion of the conductive layer of each step. The semiconductor structures also include an etch-stop layer disposed on the barrier layer and an insulating layer disposed on the etch-stop layer. The semiconductor structures also include a plurality of conductive structures formed in the insulating layer and each conductive structure is formed on the conductive layer of each step.
US11101275B2
A nonvolatile logic cell (nonvolatile storage element) 21 includes ferroelectric capacitors 25 and MOSFETs 26. A plurality of ferroelectric dummy capacitors 32 and 33 are formed in a periphery of the nonvolatile logic cell 21. Each of the ferroelectric capacitors 25 and the ferroelectric dummy capacitors 32 and 33 includes a lower electrode 51, a ferroelectric film 52 formed above the lower electrode 51, and an upper electrode 53 formed above the ferroelectric film 52.
US11101272B2
A dynamic random access memory and its manufacturing method are provided. The memory includes a buried bit line, a plurality of buried word lines, a bit line contact structure, and a conductive plug. The buried bit line is formed in a substrate. A bottom surface of the buried word line is higher than a top surface of the buried bit line. The bit line contact structure is formed on the buried bit line and has a through hole. The bit line contact structure is not in direct contact with the buried bit line. A material of the bit line contact structure is different from a material of the buried bit line. The conductive plug is formed between the bit line contact structure and the buried bit line and fills the through hole, so that the bit line contact structure and the buried bit line are electrically connected.
US11101268B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming transistors employing non-selective deposition of source and drain (S/D) material. Non-selectively depositing S/D material provides a multitude of benefits over only selectively depositing the S/D material, such as being able to attain relatively higher dopant activation, steeper dopant profiles, and better channel strain, for example. To achieve selectively retaining non-selectively deposited S/D material only in the S/D regions of a transistor (and not in other locations that would lead to electrically shorting the device, and thus, device failure), the techniques described herein use a combination of dielectric isolation structures, etchable hardmask material, and selective etching processes (based on differential etch rates between monocrystalline semiconductor material, amorphous semiconductor material, and the hardmask material) to selectively remove the non-selectively deposited S/D material and then selectively remove the hardmask material, thereby achieving selective retention of non-selectively deposited monocrystalline semiconductor material in the S/D regions.
US11101266B2
A 3D device including: a first level including first single crystal transistors overlaid by a second level including second single crystal transistors; a third level including third single crystal transistors, the second level is overlaid by the third level; a fourth level including fourth single crystal transistors, the third level is overlaid by the fourth level; first bond regions including first oxide to oxide bonds, where the first bond regions are between the first level and the second level; second bond regions including second oxide to oxide bonds, where the second bond regions are between the second level and the third level; and third bond regions including third oxide to oxide bonds, where the third bond regions are between the third level and the fourth level, where the second level, third level, and fourth level each include one array of memory cells, and where the one array of memory cells is a DRAM type memory.
US11101262B2
Stacked semiconductor die assemblies with support members and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly can include a package substrate, a first semiconductor die attached to the package substrate, and a plurality of support members also attached to the package substrate. The plurality of support members can include a first support member and a second support member disposed at opposite sides of the first semiconductor die, and a second semiconductor die can be coupled to the support members such that at least a portion of the second semiconductor die is over the first semiconductor die.
US11101260B2
An integrated circuit package and a method of forming the same are provided. The method includes attaching an integrated circuit die to a first substrate. A dummy die is formed. The dummy die is attached to the first substrate adjacent the integrated circuit die. An encapsulant is formed over the first substrate and surrounding the dummy die and the integrated circuit die. The encapsulant, the dummy die and the integrated circuit die are planarized, a topmost surface of the encapsulant being substantially level with a topmost surface of the dummy die and a topmost surface of the integrated circuit die. An interior portion of the dummy die is removed. A remaining portion of the dummy die forms an annular structure.
US11101257B2
A display device includes a pixel circuit, an insulating layer covering the pixel circuit, a first partition portion which is disposed on the insulating layer and extends in a first direction, a second partition portion which is spaced apart from the first partition portion in a second direction intersecting the first direction and extends in the first direction, a plurality of connection partition portions disposed between the first and second partition portions, where each of the plurality of connection partition portions extends in the second direction, a first electrode disposed on the first partition portion and electrically connected to the pixel circuit, a second electrode disposed on the second partition portion, and a light emitting element disposed between the plurality of connection partition portions and electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11101254B2
A system in package and method for making a system in package. A plurality of passive devices are coupled to an interposer. A molding compound envelopes the plurality of passive devices and defines a platform having a substantially planar surface. The interposer is coupled to a substrate. A plurality of integrated circuit dies are coupled in a stack to the planar surface.
US11101252B2
A package-on-package structure including a first and second package is provided. The first package includes a semiconductor die, through insulator vias, an insulating encapsulant, conductive terminals and a redistribution layer. The semiconductor die has a die height H1. The plurality of through insulator vias is surrounding the semiconductor die and has a height H2, and H2
US11101250B2
Disclosed herein is a light-emitting device package a body including a cavity; a first electrode disposed on a bottom surface of the cavity; a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the bottom surface of the cavity and configured to surround the first electrode; a first light-emitting device disposed on the first electrode; a second light-emitting device disposed on one among the plurality of second electrodes; and a light-transmitting member disposed on the body, wherein the bottom surface of the cavity includes a first edge extending in a first direction, a second edge configured to face the first edge and extend in the first direction, a third edge configured to extend in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and connected to the first and second edges, and a fourth edge configured to face the third edge, extend in the second direction, and connected to the first and second edges; the first electrode includes an arrangement portion, on which the first light-emitting device is disposed, and an extension configured to extend from the arrangement portion to the third edge; the arrangement portion includes a first inclined surface, a second inclined surface configured to face the first inclined surface, a third inclined surface perpendicular to the first and second inclined surfaces, a fourth inclined surface configured to face the third inclined surface, a first corner at which the first inclined surface and the fourth inclined surface meet, a second corner at which the second inclined surface and the fourth inclined surface meet, and a third corner at which the second inclined surface and the third inclined surface meet; each of the first to fourth inclined surfaces has an angle greater than 0 degree or less than 90 degrees with respect to the first to fourth edges; and the plurality of second electrodes branch off by the first to third corners.
US11101233B1
A method for forming a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes providing a substrate. The method includes forming a mask layer over a surface of the substrate. The mask layer has an opening over a portion of the surface. The method includes depositing a conductive layer over the surface and the mask layer. The method includes removing the mask layer and the conductive layer over the mask layer. The conductive layer remaining after the removal of the mask layer and the conductive layer over the mask layer forms a conductive pad. The method includes bonding a device to the conductive pad through a solder layer. The conductive pad is embedded in the solder layer.
US11101230B2
The invention provides an array substrate and chip bonding method, the array substrate comprising: an active area, and a bonding area located around the active area, wherein the bonding area is provided with an input terminal group, a first output terminal group and a second output terminal a group; the first output terminal group is located at a side of the input terminal group away from the active area, and the second output terminal group is located between the first output terminal group and the input terminal group; when bonding chips, the first output terminal group or the second output terminal group is selected to cooperate with the input terminal group for chip bonding according to the chip type. By simultaneously providing the first and second output terminal groups, the bonding of the second type chip increases the distance between the chip and the edge of the array substrate.
US11101227B2
Coupled line structures for wideband applications are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a coupled line structure includes one transmission line that is segmented in a metal layer and another that is substantially continuous in the metal layer, thereby allowing tighter spacing and higher coupling between the transmission lines relative to what is achievable if both transmission lines were continuous. The high coupling in turn aids in achieving wide bandwidth.
US11101226B2
A method and a high-frequency module that includes a high frequency die that may include multiple die pads; a substrate that may include a first buildup layer, a second buildup layer and a core that is positioned between the first buildup layer and a second buildup layer; a line card that may include multiple line card pads; and multiple conductors that pass through the substrate without reaching a majority of a depth of the core, and couple the multiple die pads to the multiple line card pads.
US11101225B2
A semiconductor chip (6) is disposed on the insulation substrate (2). A lead frame (8) is bonded to an upper surface of the semiconductor chip (6). A sealing resin (12) covers the semiconductor chip (6), the insulation substrate (2), and the lead frame (8). A stress mitigation resin (13) having a lower elastic modulus than that of the sealing resin (12) is partially applied to an end of the lead frame (8).
US11101219B2
A method of forming a contact to a semiconductor device is provided that forms an alloy composed of nickel (Ni), platinum (Pt), aluminum (Al), titanium (Ti) and a semiconductor material. The methods may include forming a nickel and platinum semiconductor alloy at a base of a via. A titanium layer having an angstrom scale thickness is deposited in the via in contact with the nickel platinum semiconductor alloy. An aluminum containing fill is deposited atop the titanium layer. A forming gas anneal including an oxygen containing atmosphere is applied to the structure to provide a contact alloy comprising nickel, platinum, aluminum, titanium and a semiconductor element from the contact surface of the semiconductor device.
US11101211B2
An approach to creating a semiconductor chip including a semiconductor substrate with one or more topside metal layers and one or more backside metal layers. The approach creates the semiconductor chip with one or more semiconductor devices with wiring interconnects in the one or more topside metal layers on the semiconductor substrate and one or more inductors in the one or more backside metal layer. Furthermore, the approach creates the semiconductor chip with one or more through silicon vias extending through the semiconductor substrate connecting the one or more inductors in the one or more backside metal layers and the one or more semiconductor devices with wiring interconnects in the one or more topside metal layers on the semiconductor substrate.
US11101208B2
A process of forming a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor may be incorporated into a process of forming metal bond pads connected directly to a top metal interconnect layer (e.g., Cu MTOP). The MIM capacitor may include a dielectric layer formed between a bottom plate defined by the Cu MTOP and a top plate comprising an extension of, or connected directly to, a metal bond pad formed above the Cu MTOP. The process of forming the MIM capacitor may include etching an opening in a passivation layer formed over the Cu MTOP to expose a top surface of the Cu MTOP, forming a dielectric layer extending into the passivation layer opening and onto the exposed Cu MTOP surface, removing portions of the dielectric layer to define a capacitor dielectric, and depositing bond pad metal extending into the passivation layer opening and onto the capacitor dielectric, to define the MIM capacitor top plate.
US11101205B2
An lithographic reticle may be formed comprising a transparent substrate, a substantially opaque mask formed on the transparent substrate that defines at least one exposure window, wherein the at least one exposure window has a first end, a first filter formed on the transparent substrate within the at least one exposure window and abutting the first end thereof, and a second filter formed on the transparent substrate within the at least one exposure window and abutting the first filter, wherein an average transmissivity of the first filter is substantially one half of a transmissivity of the second filter. In another embodiment, the at least one exposure window includes a third filter abutting the second end and is adjacent the second filter. Further embodiments of the present description include interconnection structures and systems fabricated using the lithographic reticle.
US11101204B2
A semiconductor module is configured to convert a direct current to a three-phase alternating current, and to supply the three-phase alternating current to a three-phase motor to drive the three-phase motor, wherein the first to the third control signal terminals Q1, Q2, and Q3 are arranged in a direction along which the first side B1 extends in a manner that one ends of the first to the third control signal terminals are in the vicinity of the first side B1 of the substrate B, and wherein the fourth to the sixth control signal terminals Q4, Q5, and Q6 are arranged in a direction along which the second side B2 extends in a manner that one ends of the fourth to the sixth control signal terminals are in the vicinity of the second side B2 of the substrate B.
US11101199B2
A power semiconductor device is such that a notch provided, along a longitudinal end face of an inner lead, in a region of a lead frame to which the inner lead is bonded. A resistor is disposed, adjacent to the inner lead, on the same side as the notch with respect to the inner lead, and a distance between the inner lead and the notch is set to be smaller than a distance between the inner lead and the resistor, and thereby the inner lead, even when shifted in position, comes into no contact with the resistor. Because of this, it is no more necessary that a space be provided around the inner lead taking into consideration a positional shift of the inner lead, and it is possible to secure the heat release area of power semiconductor chips accordingly, and thus to obtain the small-sized and high-powered power semiconductor device.
US11101198B2
In one general aspect, an apparatus can include a semiconductor die, a substrate, and a leadframe coupled to the substrate and defining an opening. The apparatus can include a one-body clip having a first portion disposed within the opening and coupled to the semiconductor die. The one-body clip can have a second portion disposed within the same opening and coupled to the substrate.
US11101174B2
Methods for forming an interconnections structure on a substrate in a cluster processing system and thermal processing such interconnections structure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for a device structure for semiconductor devices includes forming a barrier layer in an opening formed in a material layer disposed on a substrate, forming an interface layer on the barrier layer, forming a gap filling layer on the interface layer, and performing an annealing process on the substrate, wherein the annealing process is performed at a pressure range greater than 5 bar.
US11101168B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip that includes a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate having an insulator layer between an active layer and a base layer. A semiconductor device and a shallow trench isolation (SIT) structure are disposed on a frontside of the SOI substrate. A semiconductor core structure continuously surrounds the semiconductor device and extends through the STI structure and towards a backside of the SOI substrate. A first insulator liner portion and a second insulator liner portion surround a first outermost sidewall and a second outermost sidewall of the semiconductor core structure. The first and second insulator liner portions respectively have a first protrusion and a second protrusion. The first and second protrusions are arranged between the STI structure and the insulator layer of the SOI substrate.
US11101165B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device comprising the steps of: forming a first trench and a second trench in a substrate; forming a liner in the first trench and the second trench; forming a first patterned mask on the substrate to cover the second trench; removing the liner in the first trench; removing the first patterned mask; and forming an insulating layer in the first trench and the second trench to form a trap rich isolation structure in the first trench and a deep trench isolation structure in the second trench.
US11101164B2
A substrate processing system includes a first chamber including a substrate support. A showerhead is arranged above the first chamber and is configured to filter ions and deliver radicals from a plasma source to the first chamber. The showerhead includes a heat transfer fluid plenum, a secondary gas plenum including an inlet to receive secondary gas and a plurality of secondary gas injectors to inject the secondary gas into the first chamber, and a plurality of through holes passing through the showerhead. The through holes are not in fluid communication with the heat transfer fluid plenum or the secondary gas plenum.
US11101162B2
A chuck table includes a main part having a holding surface for holding thereon a workpiece through a dicing tape, and a frame holder disposed around the main part for holding the annular frame. The main part has a flat surface that functions as the holding surface, an outer circumferential suction groove defined in a region of the holding surface that underlies an annular region of the adhesive tape between the workpiece and the frame of the frame unit, for holding the annular region of the adhesive tape under suction, and a suction channel held in fluid communication with the outer circumferential suction groove and a suction source. The frame holder pulls down the frame to a position lower than the holding surface to hold the dicing tape in close contact with the holding surface.
US11101154B2
A method of processing a target substrate includes a process of serially executing multiple processes including a main process and first to M-th subprocesses (where M is a positive integer). An index value indicating one execution of the main process is accumulated for each execution of the main process. The main process is executed multiple times in the process of serially executing multiple processes. An i-th subprocess (where i is a positive integer that satisfies 1≤i≤M) is executed once or multiple times in the process of serially executing multiple processes, and is executed subsequent to one or multiple consecutive executions of the main process. The i-th application and execution conditions are changeable.
US11101149B2
A method includes depositing a plurality of first semiconductor layers and a plurality of second semiconductor layers over a substrate, wherein the first semiconductor layers and the second semiconductor layers are stacked alternately; patterning the first and second semiconductor layers to form a fin structure; supplying a first bias to the substrate after patterning the first and second semiconductor layers; and etching the second semiconductor layers when the semiconductor substrate is supplied with the first bias, wherein etching the second semiconductor layers is performed such that the first semiconductor layers are suspended above the substrate.
US11101145B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a base substrate, a die stacking unit, a number of dummy micro bumps, and an underfill material. The die stacking unit, which is mounted on the base substrate, includes a first die, a second die, and a number of first conductive joints. The first die and the second die are stacked on each other, and the first conductive joints are disposed between and connected to the first die and the second die. The dummy micro bumps, which are disposed between the first conductive joints, are connected to the first die but not to the second die. The underfill material is filled into a number of gaps between the base substrate, the first die, the second die, the first conductive joints, and the dummy micro bumps.
US11101141B2
A method for reducing defects of an electronic component using a supercritical fluid includes recrystallizing and rearranging grains in the electronic component by introducing the supercritical fluid doped with H2S together with an electromagnetic wave into a cavity. The cavity has a temperature above a critical temperature of the supercritical fluid and a pressure above a critical pressure of the supercritical fluid.
US11101140B2
An interposer substrate is manufactured with a scribe line between adjacent regions. In an embodiment a separate exposure reticle is utilized to pattern the scribe line. The exposure reticle to pattern the scribe line will create an exposure region which overlaps and overhangs the exposure regions utilized to form adjacent regions.
US11101139B2
An etched nickel plated substrate and related methods is disclosed. Specific implementations may include providing a dielectric layer, coupling a layer of copper with a first side of the dielectric layer, plating a first side of the layer of copper with a layer of nickel; forming a patterned layer on the layer of nickel, and spray etching the layer of nickel using an etchant. The method may include holding the etchant on the dielectric layer for a predetermined period of time, and while holding the etchant, etching substantially only the layer of nickel until the layer of nickel may be substantially coextensive with a perimeter of each of a plurality of traces in the layer of copper.
US11101135B2
An etchant is utilized to remove a semiconductor material. In some embodiments an oxidizer is added to the etchant in order to react with surrounding semiconductor material and form a protective layer. The protective layer is utilized to help prevent damage that could occur from the other components within the etchant.
US11101132B2
A method and device for bonding a first substrate with a second substrate inside a sealed bonding chamber. The method includes: a) fixing of the first and second substrates, b) arranging of the first and second substrates, c) mutual approaching of the first and second substrates, d) contacting the first and second substrates at respective bond initiation points, e) generating a bonding wave running from the bond initiation points to side edges of the substrates, and f) influencing the bonding wave during course of the bonding wave, wherein targeted influencing of the bonding wave takes place by a regulated and/or controlled change of pressure inside the bonding chamber.
US11101130B2
A method of forming a pattern of metallic material on a substrate includes providing a plurality of void regions on a surface of the substrate. At a first temperature, a first layer of a first metallic material of a eutectic-forming pair of metallic materials is deposited on the substrate to form a conformal metallic film over the substrate and over the surfaces of the plurality of void regions. The substrate and conformal metallic film are warmed to a second temperature greater than a eutectic-liquid-formation temperature of the eutectic pair of metallic materials. At the second temperature, the second metallic material of the eutectic-forming pair of metallic materials is deposited on the conformal metallic film to initiate a eutectic-liquid-forming reaction, such that the plurality of void regions are filled with a mixture of the first and second metallic materials of the eutectic-forming pair of metallic materials.
US11101129B2
Methods for depositing films by atomic layer deposition using cyclic siloxane precursors are provided. Methods involve exposing the substrate to a cyclic siloxane precursor during operation of an atomic layer deposition cycle to form silicon oxide.
US11101123B2
The invention is directed to mass spectrometer comprising an extraction system for secondary ions. The system comprises: an inner spherical deflecting sector; an outer spherical deflecting sector; a deflecting gap formed between the sectors; a housing in which the sectors are arranged. The deflecting sectors (42; 44) are biased at retarding gap (46). The system further comprises an exit disc electrode with an exit through hole centered about the exit axis, the intermediate electrode being biased at an intermediate voltage between the voltage of the housing and the average voltage of the sectors. The trajectories of the secondary ions become more parallel to the exit axis and become closer to the axis.
US11101115B2
A method and apparatus for replacing process kits that include edge rings and/or support rings in processing chambers. In one implementation, a process kit comprises a multi-segment edge ring. The multi-segment edge ring comprises a first segment, a second segment, and a first annular body. The first annular body comprises a first upper surface, a first lower surface opposite the first upper surface, a first inner surface and a first outer surface. The first segment and the second segment are connectable to form the first annular body. The first lower surface is operable to be positioned over a substrate support disposed within a processing chamber, and at least a portion of the inner surface, which is positioned between the first upper surface and the first lower surface has a diameter greater than a diameter of a substrate to be processed in the processing chamber.
US11101113B2
A method of etching uses an overhead electron beam source that generates an ion-ion plasma for performing an atomic layer etch process.
US11101108B2
A nanosecond pulser system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the nanosecond pulser system may include a nanosecond pulser having a nanosecond pulser input; a plurality of switches coupled with the nanosecond pulser input; one or more transformers coupled with the plurality of switches; and an output coupled with the one or more transformers and providing a high voltage waveform with a amplitude greater than 2 kV and a frequency greater than 1 kHz based on the nanosecond pulser input. The nanosecond pulser system may also include a control module coupled with the nanosecond pulser input; and an control system coupled with the nanosecond pulser at a point between the transformer and the output, the control system providing waveform data regarding an high voltage waveform produced at the point between the transformer and the output.
US11101105B1
A method, and a high voltage (HV) system that may include a noise reduction unit (MNRU) and a bias setting unit (BSU). The HV system may receive a HV supply signal, over a high voltage supply line from a HV supply unit. The HV supply unit, the MNRU, the BSU and a HV charged particle system may share a ground. At least the MNRU may detect noise in the HV supply signal and send, though the ground, a noise compensation signal. The BSU may receive an indication about a requested value of a bias voltage, and apply the bias voltage to a noise compensated HV signal to provide a biased and noise compensated HV signal to the HV charged particle system.
US11101095B2
Controlling total emission current of an electron emitting construct in an x-ray emitting device by providing a cathode, providing multiple active areas each active area having a gated cone electron source, including multiple emitter tips arranged in an array, a gate electrode, and a gate interconnect lead connected to the gate electrode, providing an x-ray emitting construct comprising an anode, the anode being an x-ray target, situating the x-ray emitting construct facing the active areas face each other, selecting a set of active areas, and activating selected active areas by conductively connecting a voltage source to their associated the gate electrode interconnect lead.
US11101094B2
A device and a system for preventing insertion of a fuse into a fuse holder, and methods for using the same. The device and the system comprise retaining elements that are adapted to engage with a fuse holder. When the device or system is engaged in a fuse holder, it is not possible to insert a fuse into the fuse holder. This allows for safe isolation of electric circuits.
US11101093B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure of a fuse may include a fuse body having a first portion and a second portion. The first and second portions may be configured to mate together thereby forming an internal cavity. A first inner termination and a second inner termination may be at least partially attachable to the first and second portions of the fuse body at respective first and second ends. A fusible element may be disposed in the cavity of the fuse body and extendable from the first inner termination at the first end of the fuse body to the second inner termination at the second end of the fuse body. The fusible element may be attachable to the first inner termination at a first connection and the second inner termination at a second connection. The first and second connections may be inspectable when the fuse is in an assembled state.
US11101086B2
An electrical switch for interrupting a current path. The switch includes a contact point formed from a first and a second contact piece mounted such that it can move about a rotation axis. The contact point is closed when the two contact pieces are in contact and is electrically opened when the two contact pieces are not in contact. The electrical switch includes an actuator unit and an electrically non-conductive separating element which can be moved in a translatory manner by means of the actuator unit and is designed to isolate the two contact pieces and then to keep the two contact pieces apart. The actuator unit includes a movement element mechanically coupled to the separating element, a drive device designed to move the movement element in order to close the contact point, a device for generating and/or storing kinetic energy and an electromagnetic actuator.
US11101085B2
What is presented is a key module (100) with a cover element (110) and a tappet (105) having a cam nose (135), wherein the tappet (105) is supported to be movable along a movement axis (200) by the cover element (110), wherein the tappet (105) has a cylindrical keycap supporting portion (160) in a passage area (210) in which it projects through the cover element (110) and has at least one rib (170) on a guiding portion (165) adjacent to the an keycap supporting portion (160) on an outside (167). Furthermore, the key module (100) includes a contactor unit (115) formed and arranged to be taken along by the cam nose (135), and a contact piece (120) formed and arranged for establishing electric contact with the contact nose (140). Moreover, the key module (100) has a housing element (130) for accommodating the contact piece (120), the contactor unit (115) and the tappet (105), wherein the housing element (130) has, for accommodating the guiding portion (165) of the tappet (105), at least one accommodating bowl (175) with at least one recess (1100) for accommodating the at least one rib (170) of the tappet (105).
US11101073B2
A dielectric ceramic composition includes a barium titanate-based base material main ingredient and an accessory ingredient, and the accessory ingredient includes dysprosium (Dy) and gadolinium (Gd) as first accessory ingredient elements, and a content ratio of gadolinium (Gd), based on a total content of the first accessory ingredient elements, is 25% or higher.
US11101071B2
The present disclosure provides a chip capacitor, including: a first capacitor unit formed over a substrate and including a first lower electrode, first dielectric layer and first upper electrode; a second insulating layer over the first capacitor unit; a second conductive layer over the second insulating layer, and includes a first wiring portion and a second wiring portion, the first wiring portion being connected to the first lower electrode by a first contact via and connected to a first pad by a third contact via, the second wiring portion being connected to the first upper electrode by a second contact via and connected to a second pad by a fourth contact via; a first external electrode connected to the first wiring portion; and a second external electrode connected to the second wiring portion.
US11101057B2
Provided are a highly thermostable rare-earth permanent magnetic material, a preparation method thereof and a magnet containing the same. A composition of the rare-earth permanent magnetic material by an atomic percentage is as follows: SmxRaFe100-x-y-z-aMyNz, wherein R is at least one of Zr and Hf, M is at least one of Co, Ti, Nb, Cr, V, Mo, Si, Ga, Ni, Mn and Al, x+a is 7-10%, a is 0-1.5%, y is 0-5% and z is 10-14%.
US11101048B2
A methodology is disclosed for compaction of a ceramic matrix of certain nuclear fuels incorporating neutron poisons, whereby those poisons aid in reactor control while aiding in fuel fabrication. Neutronic poisons are rare-earth oxides that readily form eutectics suppressing fuel fabrication temperature, of particular importance to the fully ceramic microencapsulated fuel form and fuel forms with volatile species.
US11101047B2
The power plant system includes a molten salt reactor assembly, a thermocline unit, phase change heat exchangers, and process heat systems. The thermocline unit includes an insulated tank, an initial inlet, a plurality of zone outlets, and a plurality of gradient zones corresponding to each zone outlet and being stacked in the tank. Each gradient zone has a molten salt portion at a portion temperature corresponding to the molten salt supply from the molten salt reactor being stored in the tank and stratified. The molten salt portions at higher portion temperatures generate thermal energy for process heat systems that require higher temperatures, and molten salt portions at lower portion temperatures generate thermal energy for process heat systems that require lower temperatures. The system continuously pumps the molten salt supply in controlled rates to deliver the heat exchange fluid supply to perform work in the corresponding particular process heat system.
US11101045B2
The approach is for cognitively transferring IoT configurations between similar IoT ecosystems based on several factors. The approach scans IoT devices from a first and a second IoT ecosystem and extracts user data from the first and the second IoT ecosystem. The approach compares the first IoT ecosystem against the second IoT ecosystem and determines if the first IoT ecosystem is similar to the second IoT ecosystem. If the first and second IoT ecosystem are similar, then transfer data from the first IoT ecosystem to the second IoT ecosystem.
US11101043B2
A facility for predicting patient outcomes on the basis of clinical trials is described. The facility obtains information describing one or more completed clinical trials, and extracts features from the obtained clinical trial information. The facility uses the extracted features to train both a time-series data model for predicting clinical outcomes and a non-time-series data model for predicting clinical outcomes. The facility applies these trained models to information describing a subject patient to predict a clinical outcome for the subject patient.
US11101042B2
Systems and methods are provided for eye health and vision examinations. A customer diagnostic center is configured to generate customer examination data pertaining to an examination of a customer's eye. The customer diagnostic center provides a user interface for communicating with a customer and ophthalmic equipment for administering tests to the customer. A diagnostic center server is configured to receive the customer examination data from the customer diagnostic center over a network and allow the customer examination data to be accessed by an eye-care practitioner. A practitioner device associated with the eye-care practitioner is configured to receive the customer examination data from the diagnostic center server and display at least a portion of the customer examination data to the eye-care practitioner. Customer evaluation data is generated pertaining to the eye-care practitioner's evaluation of the customer examination data. An eye health report is provided to the customer via the network.
US11101037B2
Mechanisms are provided for implementing a disambiguation engine for disambiguating content. Electronic content is received from a corpus of electronic content, and analyzed to identify an ambiguous portion of content. The ambiguous portion of content is a portion of the electronic content whose meaning is not made explicit in the ambiguous portion of content. A context associated with the ambiguous portion of content is determined and a set of one or more context based ambiguous content interpretation rules associated with the determined context is applied to the ambiguous portion of content to generate an interpretation of the ambiguous portion of content. The ambiguous portion of content is annotated based on the interpretation to generate disambiguated electronic content which is stored for processing as part of a subsequent operation.
US11101036B2
Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for relaying information from a cardiac pacemaker to an external device. Logic on the pacemaker modulates a heartbeat clock of the pacemaker to encode information onto a blood pressure sequence by adding or subtracting a small subinterval to or from a pulse repetition interval of the pacemaker. A muscle stimulator beats the heart according to the modulated sequence. A monitoring device external to the body monitors the blood pressure to retrieve the encoded information, or message. The encoded information is then decoded to determine the information in the message. This information may concern the pacemaker as well as other devices within the body that communicate with the pacemaker such as blood monitors, etc. Since the message is conveyed via simple modulation of the heart beat intervals, no separate transmitter is required in the pacemaker which would otherwise increase cost and decrease battery life.
US11101030B2
Some embodiments include burden-free insulin delivery systems and methods. Some embodiments include a method comprising: receiving previous insulin delivery data at a user device from an insulin pump; receiving estimated glucose data at the user device from a continuous glucose monitor; determining that the estimated glucose value is approaching or has passed a threshold; and in response to determining that the estimated glucose value is approaching or has surpassed the threshold, not providing an indication to the user through a user interface that the estimated glucose value is approaching or surpassed the threshold.
US11101029B2
A system for predicting medications to prescribe to a patient includes a text encoding module and a medication prediction module. The text encoding module is configured to obtain a clinical-information vector from clinical information of the patient. The medication prediction module configured to apply a machine-learned medication-prediction algorithm to the clinical-information vector to select a subset of medications to prescribe to the patient. The machine-learned medication-prediction algorithm is designed with a diversity-promoting regularization model, and is configured to simultaneously consider correlations among different medications and dependencies between patient information and medications when selecting a subset of medications to prescribe to the patient.
US11101022B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for reactive encounter scanning is executed on a computing device and includes obtaining encounter information of a patient encounter. A request is received from a user concerning a specific medical condition. In response to receiving the request, the encounter information is processed to determine if the encounter information is indicative of the specific medical condition and to generate a result set. The result set is provided to the user.
US11101014B2
Disclosed are devices and methods for improving the initialization of devices housing memories. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising writing a test program to a first region of a memory device during production of the memory device; executing a self-test program in response to detecting a first power up of the memory device, the self-test program stored within the test program; and retrieving and installing an image from a remote data source in response to detecting a subsequent power up of the memory device, the retrieving performed by the test program.
US11101010B2
The present disclosure relates to a structure including a first delay path circuit which is configured to receive an input signal and is connected to a complement transistor of a twin cell transistor pair through a complement bitline signal, a second delay path circuit which is configured to receive the input signal and is connected to a true transistor of the twin cell transistor pair through a true bitline signal, and a logic circuit which is configured to receive a first output of the first delay path circuit and a second output of the second delay path circuit and output a data output signal.
US11101009B1
A memory system is configured to convert multiple programmable memory or a portion thereof to one-time programmable (OTP) memory. The system is configured to repetitively perform memory operations (such as program and erase procedures) on a portion of memory in order to induce accelerated degradation (aging) of select memory cells, thereby permanently changing the select cells, such that a pattern of the cells with degraded performance indicate a data value that has been permanently encoded into the memory.
US11101005B2
A memory device includes first and second memory strings, first and second word lines and a controller. The first memory string includes first and second memory cells, a first select transistor, a second select transistor, and a third select transistor between the first and second memory cells. The second memory string includes third and fourth memory cells, a fourth select transistor above the third memory cell, a fifth select transistor below the fourth memory cell, and a sixth select transistor between the third and fourth memory cells. The first word line is electrically connected to gates of the first and third memory cells. The second word line is electrically connected to gates of the second and fourth memory cells. The controller is configured to execute a read operation on one of the memory cells, the read operation including a first phase and a second phase after the first phase.
US11100996B2
Devices and techniques for managing flash memory are disclosed herein. A memory controller may receive a first program request comprising first host data to be written to the flash memory. The flash memory may comprise a number of storage units with each storage unit comprising a number of storage sub-units. If the first host data is less than a remainder threshold, the memory controller may generate a first program data unit comprising the first host data and first log data describing the flash memory. The memory controller may program the program data unit to the first storage unit of the flash memory, where the first log data is written to a first storage sub-unit of the number of storage sub-unit. The memory controller may also store an indication that the first storage sub-unit is invalid.
US11100994B2
A content addressable memory cell includes a first floating body transistor and a second floating body transistor. The first floating body transistor and the second floating body transistor are electrically connected in series through a common node. The first floating body transistor and the second floating body transistor store complementary data.
US11100993B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a TCAM architecture in which a content-based search is conductible in such a manner that a search key to be searched for is used as an address of a memory element that makes up a TCAM cell and that an output from the memory element reflects whether a match or a mismatch is found as a result of the search. The memory element may be a look-up table.
US11100988B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes the following configuration. First Lower word line drivers are arranged between adjacent mats, and first upper word line drivers are arranged between the first Lower word line drivers. Second Lower word line drivers are arranged between another adjacent mats, and second upper word line drivers are arranged between the second lower word line drivers. The first and second upper word line drivers are shared by the adjacent mats respectively.
US11100986B2
Methods, systems, and devices for discharge current mitigation in a memory array are described. Access lines of a memory array may be divided into discrete segments, with each segment coupled with a driver for the access line by one or more vias respective to the segment. For example, a first segment of an access line may be coupled with a first set of memory cells, a second segment of the access line may be coupled with a second set of memory cells, and a driver may be coupled to the first segment by a first via and to the second segment by a second via. To access a memory cell in either the first set or the second, both the first segment of the access line and the second segment of the access line may be activated together by the common driver.
US11100985B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a cell array including a plurality of first lines, a plurality of second lines intersecting the plurality of first lines, and a plurality of memory cells arranged in matrix and connected at intersections of the first and second lines between both lines, each memory cell containing a serial circuit of an electrically erasable programmable variable resistive element of which resistance is nonvolatilely stored as data and a non-ohmic element; and a plurality of access circuits operative to simultaneously access the memory cells physically separated from each other in the cell array.
US11100982B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, applying a setting voltage across first and second electrodes, wherein a nanowire with a first electrical resistance is electrically connected between the first and second electrodes, wherein the applying of the setting voltage causes a migration of ions from the first and/or second electrodes to a surface of the nanowire, and wherein the migration of ions effectuates a reduction of electrical resistance of the nanowire from the first electrical resistance to a second electrical resistance that is lower than the first electrical resistance; and applying a reading voltage across the pair of electrodes, wherein the reading voltage is less than the setting voltage, and wherein the reading voltage is sufficiently small such that the applying of the reading voltage causes no more than an insignificant change of the electrical resistance of the nanowire from the second electrical resistance. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11100973B2
Systems and apparatuses for memory devices utilizing a continuous self-refresh timer are provided. An example apparatus includes a self-refresh timer configured to generate a signal periodically, wherein a period of the signal is based on a self-refresh refresh time interval, wherein the self-refresh refresh time interval is dependent on temperature information. The apparatus may further include a memory bank comprising at least a first subarray and in communication with a first subarray refresh circuit, which may include a first refresh status counter. The first refresh status counter may be in communication with the self-refresh timer and configured to receive the signal from the self-refresh timer, change a count value of the first refresh status counter in a first direction each time the signal is received, and change the count value of the first refresh status counter in a second direction each time the first subarray is refreshed.
US11100968B2
A memory system includes a representative memory device directly outputting a representative data strobe signal, at least one non-representative memory device outputting a non-representative data strobe signal through the representative memory device, and a controller generating an internal delay clock signal synchronized with the representative data strobe signal. The controller outputs a test mode code defining a delay time using the internal delay clock signal as a reference signal. The at least one non-representative memory device adjusts a phase of the non-representative data strobe signal such that the non-representative data strobe signal has a delay time corresponding to the test mode code.
US11100964B1
Systems and method are provided for a memory circuit that includes a bit cell responsive to a bit line signal line and a bit line bar signal line configured to store a bit of data. A pre-charge circuit is configured to charge one of the bit line and bit line bar signal lines prior to a read operation, where the pre-charge circuit includes a first pre-charge component and a second pre-charge component, the first and second pre-charge components being individually controllable for charging the bit line and bit line bar signal lines.
US11100953B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically generating an audio and video clip comprising a plurality of audio and video segments. In one embodiment, an audio and video clip comprising a first audio and video segment and a second audio and video segment is generated, where the first audio and video segment was automatically selected from a first plurality of audio and video segments and the second audio and video segment was automatically selected from a second plurality of audio and video segments.
US11100951B2
An apparatus comprises a slider configured to facilitate heat assisted magnetic recording and a submount affixed to the slider. A laser unit is affixed to the submount and comprises a laser operable in a non-lasing state and a lasing state. A heater is embedded in the laser unit or the submount. The heater is configured to generate preheat for heating the laser during the non-lasing state and to generate steering heat for heating the laser during the lasing state.
US11100949B2
Provided is a magnetic recording medium including: a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including particles of at least one kind of epsilon type iron oxide-based compound selected from the group consisting of ε-Fe2O3 and a compound represented by Formula (1), an abrasive, and a binding agent, at least on one surface of the non-magnetic support, in which an average equivalent circle diameter of the particles of the epsilon type iron oxide-based compound is 7 nm to 18 nm, an average equivalent circle diameter of the abrasive in a plan view of the magnetic layer is 20 nm to 1,000 nm, and a coefficient of variation of the equivalent circle diameter of the abrasive is 30% to 60%. In Formula (1), A represents at least one kind of metal element other than Fe and a satisfies a relationship of 0
US11100929B2
A voice assistant device comprises an input to receive data defining an audio command; and processing circuitry to perform an operation defined by the audio command responsive to an activation of the voice assistant device; wherein the activation comprises determining presence of an activation source within an activation region from one or more sensors.
US11100923B2
Systems and methods for media playback via a media playback system include capturing sound data via a network microphone device and identifying a candidate wake word in the sound data. Based on identification of the candidate wake word in the sound data, the system selects a first wake-word engine from a plurality of wake-word engines. Via the first wake-word engine, the system analyzes the sound data to detect a confirmed wake word, and, in response to detecting the confirmed wake word, transmits a voice utterance of the sound data to one or more remote computing devices associated with a voice assistant service.
US11100918B2
An event sensing system includes one or more sensor assemblies, each sensor assembly including a housing, a microphone, and an audio signal processor. The audio signal processor is configured to generate one of an event classification, which is indicative of a type of event, and an event characteristic, which is indicative of a severity of an event, from the audio signal. The sensor assembly is configured to transmit event records that contain the generated event data to a cloud infrastructure component. The cloud infrastructure component is configured to calculate the probability of an event occurring at a plurality of locations in a region within a bounded time window based on the event records received from a plurality of sensor assemblies.
US11100912B2
A noise cancellation headphone comprises a speaker, a front plate for carrying the speaker, a microphone arranged on or in the front plate, and a front vent opening arranged within the front plate and in close proximity to the microphone. The microphone is usable as a feedback microphone for active noise cancellation.
US11100908B2
A keyboard includes a frame and a plurality of mass bodies. The mass bodies are arranged in parallel to each other. Each of the mass bodies is pivotally supported to pivot about a pivot fulcrum with respect to the frame. The mass bodies are at least one of a plurality of keys configured to be directly operated, a plurality of interlocking members configured to pivot in conjunction with a corresponding one of the plurality of keys, embedded members in the plurality of keys or embedded members in the plurality of interlocking members. At least some of the mass bodies include notched portions being arranged in order from a pitch, which is equal to or greater than a lowest pitch, to a highest pitch. The notched portions are different from each other in at least one of size, position, or distance from the pivot fulcrum.
US11100900B2
A foldable display comprises a flexible display panel including a screen which displays an image; a measuring part configured to measure a folding angle of the flexible display panel; and an image processor configured to vary a size of the image displayed on the screen and a size of a black pattern displayed on the screen of the flexible display panel while the folding angle of the flexible display panel is varied.
US11100886B2
The present disclosure provides a smart window, a control method thereof, and a transport vehicle. The smart window may include a detector, a collector, a displayer and a processor. The detector is configured to detect whether a close-range scene exists. The collector is configured to collect position information of a human eye. The processor is connected to the detector and the collector, and configured to calculate coordinates of the close-range scene, calculate coordinates of the human eye according to the position information of the human eye, obtain a frame-extracted area according to the coordinates of the close-range scene and coordinates of the human eye, perform black insertion for pixels in the frame-extracted area in the displayer, and generate a display signal. The displayer is connected to the processor and configured to display according to the display signal.
US11100880B2
A pixel array with a gate driver and a matrix sensor array are provided. The pixel array includes at least one pixel unit and a gate driver. The pixel unit includes a pixel circuit and an open area. The pixel circuit includes a thin film transistor (TFT) and a physical quantity conversion device. The TFT includes gate terminal, source terminal, and drain terminals. The source terminal is coupled to a corresponding data line. The physical quantity conversion device is coupled to the drain terminal of the TFT. The gate driver is disposed in a corresponding pixel unit and a scan line outputted by the gate driver is coupled to the gate terminal in the corresponding pixel unit. The gate driver is disposed adjacent to one of the at least one pixel unit. The gate driver is controlled by a gate control signal to drive the at least one pixel unit.
US11100877B2
A display may have an array of pixels such as liquid crystal display pixels. The display may include short pixel rows that span only partially across the display and full-width pixel rows that span the width of the display. The gate lines coupled to the short pixel rows may extend into the inactive area of the display. Supplemental gate line loading structures may be located in the inactive area of the display to increase loading on the gate lines that are coupled to short pixel rows. The supplemental gate line loading structures may include data lines and doped polysilicon that overlap the gate lines in the inactive area. In displays that combine display and touch functionality into a thin-film transistor layer, supplemental loading structures may be used in the inactive area to increase loading on common voltage lines that are coupled to short rows of common voltage pads.
US11100876B2
The present application discloses a thin-film transistor-based latch circuit for latching a data voltage in a pixel circuit. The latch circuit includes an input terminal; a first node; an inverse node; a positive-feedback terminal coupled to the input terminal; a first control sub-circuit coupled respectively to the input terminal, the first node, a first power-supply port configured to be provided with a first voltage, and a second power-supply port configured to be provided with a second voltage; a second control sub-circuit coupled respectively to the input terminal, the first node, the inverse node, the first power-supply port, and the second power-supply port; and a third control sub-circuit coupled respectively to the inverse node, the positive-feedback terminal, the first power-supply port, and the second power-supply port.
US11100875B2
A display panel, a display device and a driving method are provided. In the display panel, the subpixels input with the first voltage data signal and the subpixels input with the second voltage data signal are alternately arranged; and the number of the subpixels input with the first voltage data signal with a positive polarity is equal to the number of the subpixels input with the first voltage data signal with a negative polarity among the subpixels with a same color in a same row.
US11100867B2
Disclosed is a light emitting display apparatus in which two of three scan signals used by a pixel driving circuit provided in one pixel are supplied through two scan lines provided in the pixel and the other remaining signal is supplied through a scan line provided in another pixel adjacent to the pixel.
US11100866B2
A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, as well as a display device. The pixel circuit includes an initialization signal terminal, a scanning signal terminal, a data signal terminal, a first power supply terminal, a second power supply terminal, a reference voltage terminal a light-emitting signal control terminal, a reset signal terminal, a data writing sub-circuit, a threshold compensation sub-circuit, a light-emitting control sub-circuit, a reset sub-circuit, a storage capacitor, a driver transistor and a light-emitting element. The threshold compensation sub-circuit is configured to pre-store the threshold voltage of the driver transistor in the storage capacitor.
US11100862B2
A display panel includes: a substrate; a first pixel arranged over the substrate and including a first transistor and a first display element electrically connected to the first transistor; and a first bottom layer arranged between the substrate and the first transistor, wherein the first bottom layer has a first voltage in a first period and has a second voltage in a second period different from the first period. The first and second voltages differ from one another.
US11100861B2
Discussed is a light emitting diode display device including a plurality of pixels displaying an image based on a data signal, the plurality of pixels each including: a first and second light emitting diode devices emitting light, a first and second driving transistors electrically connected to the first and second light emitting diode devices respectively, an insulation layer covering the first and second driving transistors and a planarization layer on the insulation layer and an adhesive member between the insulation layer and the first and the second light emitting diode devices, wherein each of the first and second light emitting diode devices includes: a first portion including a first electrode and a second electrode and a second portion opposite to the first portion, and wherein the adhesive member is interposed between the second portion of each of the first and the second light emitting diode devices and the insulation layer.
US11100853B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display machine with an illumination function is provided. The OLED display machine includes a display region, at least one illumination region, and a drive circuit. An organic light-emitting display device is arranged in the display region. Each illumination region is located at one side edge adjacent to the display region. An organic light-emitting illumination device is disposed in the illumination region. The organic light-emitting illumination device includes a substrate, an insulating layer, a planarization layer, an anode electrode, a light-emitting material layer, and a cathode electrode. The drive circuit is electrically connected to the anode electrode and the cathode electrode of the organic light-emitting illumination device to control an ON or OFF state of the organic light-emitting illumination device. Accordingly, the present invention provides not only a display function, but also illumination, so facilitate wide application and development of the OLED display machine.
US11100849B1
The present application provides a display device and a driving method of the display device. A pixel circuit controls a light-emitting duration of a light-emitting element according to a pulse width modulation scan signal, a pulse width modulation data signal, and a pulse width modulation control signal, and controls an amount of a driving current of the light-emitting element according to a pulse amplitude modulation scan signal and a pulse amplitude modulation data signal.
US11100844B2
The disclosure describes various aspects of an architecture for light emitting elements in a light field display. In an aspect, a light field display can include multiple picture elements (e.g., super-raxels), where each of the picture elements has a respective light steering optical element and includes an array of light emitting elements (e.g., sub-raxels) that area monolithically integrated on a same semiconductor substrate. The light steering optical element can include at least one microlens, at least one grating, or a combination of both. The array of light emitting elements includes light emitting elements that produce at least three different colors of light. Separate groups of light emitting elements can be configured and a directional resolution of the light field display can be based on the number of groups. The light field display also includes electronic means configured to individually drive the light emitting elements in each of the picture elements.
US11100843B2
A display device includes a pixel unit including first pixels in a first pixel area, second pixels in a second pixel area, and third pixels in a third pixel area; a first scan driver including first multiplexers configured to operate in response to a first mode and a second mode different from the first mode, and to supply first scan signals to first scan lines connected to the first pixels; a second scan driver configured to supply second scan signals to second scan lines connected to the second pixels; and a third scan driver including second multiplexers configured to operate in response to the first mode and the second mode, and to supply third scan signals to third scan lines connected to the third pixels.
US11100835B2
Shift register unit, method of driving shift register unit, gate driving circuit, and display device
A shift register unit, a method of driving a shift register unit, a gate driving circuit, and a display device are disclosed. The shift register unit includes an input circuit and an output circuit. The input circuit is configured to write an input signal of the input terminal to the first node in response to an input control signal, so as to control a level of the first node. The output circuit is configured to receive a clock signal of the clock signal terminal and output a scanning signal through the pixel signal output terminal under control of the level of the first node. The output circuit includes a variable resistor, and the variable resistor is configured to adjust a level of the scanning signal according to a resistance value of the variable resistor.
US11100828B2
A measurement system has a photosensitive element, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a reference voltage source, and a transmission interface. The photosensitive element senses variations of brightness of a display panel of a liquid crystal display (LCD) to generate a voltage signal. The ADC converts the voltage signal into a digital signal. The reference voltage source provides a reference voltage to the ADC to drive the ADC to dynamically adjust a convertible voltage range of the ADC for any voltage inputted to the ADC according to the reference voltage. The transmission interface transmits the digital signal to a computer to trigger the computer to calculate a response time of the LCD according to the digital signal.
US11100824B2
Disclosed are parking pay stations, media display caps for parking pay stations, parking pay station advertising platforms including a housing, wherein at least one side of the housing comprises at least one transparent window and at least one media display screen visible through the window, wherein the media display screen is configured to display media to parking users and others, including pedestrians. Also disclosed are methods of retrofitting existing parking pay stations to upgrade them to include media display capability.
US11100816B2
The invention relates to a method for selecting a face material for a printable label and to a printed label comprising the face material, which is selected by the method. According to an embodiment the method comprises preselecting steps, printing step(s) comprising printing of the preselected face materials using printing method(s) providing a human-readable information and a machine-readable information, evaluating steps, and a final selecting step comprising selecting of the face material, which comprises the human-readable information exhibiting a halftone resolution at least 30 L/cm and the machine-readable information exhibiting final data area module size less than 1.0 mm.
US11100812B2
A virtual welding station includes a virtual sequencer for simulating different welding techniques and non-welding operations. The virtual welding station can be used to train an operator on the production of complete assemblies.
US11100804B2
A driving assistance apparatus includes a trajectory information acquiring unit, an intersection registering unit, and a driving assistance unit. The intersection registering unit registers in a storage unit as a specific intersection, an intersection which a host vehicle passes through after another vehicle has passed through. The driving assistance unit makes a level of driving assistance performed in a predetermined area near the specific intersection higher than the level of driving assistance performed in the predetermined area near another intersection.
US11100803B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for analyzing a driving tendency and a system for controlling a vehicle. The apparatus includes: an image sensor disposed in a vehicle so as to have a field of view exterior of the vehicle, the image sensor configured to capture image data; and a controller comprising at least one processor configured to process the image data captured by the image sensor, wherein the controller is configured to: identify a plurality of objects present in the field of view, responsive at least in part to processing of the image data; determine whether an event is generated, based on at least one of a processing result of the image data and pre-stored driving information of the vehicle; analyze a driving tendency of a driver, based on the driving information and the processing result of the image data, when it is determined that the event is generated; and set a driving level corresponding to the driving tendency of the driver.
US11100801B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for a detection system. The hazard detection system includes a first sensor configured to detect or measure first sensor data including driver behavior patterns and a second sensor configured to detect second sensor data including driving patterns of one or more other vehicles. The hazard detection system includes an electronic control unit coupled to the first sensor and the second sensor. The electronic control unit is configured to obtain the first sensor data and the second sensor data and determine that a hazardous condition is present based on the driver behavior patterns or the driving patterns. The electronic control unit is configured to alert a driver of the vehicle, the one or more other vehicles or another entity of the hazardous condition.
US11100798B2
A vehicle management system for managing vehicles used by users has a usage managing unit configured to accept a user's reservation for use of one of the vehicles, set returnable spaces among parking spaces to be managed, the returnable space being the parking space to which a reserved vehicle can be returned after using the reserved vehicle, and set a planned return space to be a destination for the reserved vehicle among the returnable spaces, and a usage determining unit configured to determine whether or not the use of the reserved vehicle is started. The usage managing unit is configured to set a vacant parking space to the returnable space when the usage determining unit determines that the use of the reserved vehicle is started. The vacant parking space is the parking space in which the reserved vehicle is parked at the time of departure.
US11100789B2
An operation acceptor accepts, from a first user, a first operation with respect to a facility device. An identification information acquirer acquires identification information of the first user. A transmitter transmits the identification information of the first user and identification information of the first operation to the facility device. A storage stores control contents determination information containing identification information of users who use the facility device, facility information of operations with respect to the facility device, control contents with respect to the facility device that are in association with one another. A device controller controls the facility device in accordance with control contents associated with the identification information of the first user and the identification information of the first operation by the control contents determination information.
US11100786B2
Systems and techniques are provided for sensor bypass. Activation may be received at a bypass input of an entry point sensor of a security system while the entry point sensor is in an armed mode. The entry point sensor may detect that the entry point monitored by the entry point sensor is closed. The entry point sensor may enter into a bypass mode. Detection by the entry point sensor of an opening of the entry point while the entry point sensor is in the bypass mode may not result in the generation of an alarm by the security system.
US11100782B2
A system for providing remote updates on medical devices includes a wireless communication network, a wearable update output device comprising a wireless receiver in wireless communication with the wireless communication network, and a medical system comprising a medical device, an update generator, and a wireless transmitter. The update generator is configured to monitor a process carried out using the medical device, to generate one or more updates according to device states that occur during the process, and to route the updates to the wireless transmitter. The network is in wireless communication with the wireless transmitter, and is configured to route updates received from the wireless transmitter to the wireless receiver of the wearable update output device.
US11100773B1
In certain embodiments, condition-based storing and return of an item associated with a user may be facilitated via a locker system. In some embodiments, attribute information indicating attributes of an item placed in the locker system may be obtained, and the attribute information may be processed to determine a categorization of the item. In response to the categorization satisfying one or more categorization conditions, product/service information related to a product or service may be provided for presentation to the user. In response to receiving user acceptance of the product or service, an item return condition may be assigned to the item. In response to the user satisfying the item return condition, access rights to the item may be enabled for the user.
US11100769B2
A display apparatus for an emergency service member for displaying information content of different information types from a guidance system is proposed. The display apparatus comprises a display, carriable by the emergency service member, having a plurality of visually distinguishable segments, with each of which at least one of the information types is associated, each segment being configured to visually output a current information content of the information type associated with the segment. Further, the display apparatus comprises an actuating unit, couplable to the guidance system, for actuating the display.
US11100765B2
Systems and methods for ATM fraud detection are presented. ATM fraud detection may be provided in the context of a currency dispenser configured to dispense currency notes and a force sensor configured to detect a force applied to the currency dispenser, and a processor configured for data communication with the currency dispenser and the force sensor. The processor may issue an alert if the force sensor detects the force for longer than a predetermined time period.
US11100752B2
A gaming machine is provided having a cabinet with one or more technician accessible and normally locked compartments that include respective compartment service lights. A respective gaming power supply node is provided in at least one of the compartments where power is supplied to that node for a limited time during servicing. In order to allow for long durations of service lighting in the compartment, a service backup battery is added to the compartment. A power selecting circuit is employed to automatically select either the service backup battery or the gaming power supply node for supplying power to service lights in the compartment.
US11100748B2
An electronic gaming machine includes a game controller configured to execute instructions stored in a tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium, which, when executed by the game controller, cause the game controller to at least: (i) simulate spinning and stopping a first plurality of reels to display a first plurality of symbols from each reel of the first plurality of reels, wherein, while the first plurality of reels are spinning, a second plurality of reels are held stationary; (ii) determine whether the first plurality of symbols include at least one trigger symbol; and (iii) simulate spinning and stopping, in response to the at least one trigger symbol, the second plurality of reels to display a second plurality of symbols from each reel of the second plurality of reels, wherein, while the second plurality of reels are spinning, the first plurality of reels are held stationary.
US11100746B2
A methodology and apparatus for providing casino game signage for a casino game which incorporates display information that is dynamically interchangeable between game specific and game non-specific information responsive to automatic detection of game play status at the game table. At least one electronic display is provided at respective casino game tables, and selected display information is wirelessly transmitted, and/or manually delivered, thereto. The display information which is displayed is dynamically selected based upon a sensor automatically detecting the status of play of the game, being game specific during play and selectively game specific and game non-specific during game play inactivity.
US11100740B2
The present disclosure relates to a wearable radio device for access control. The radio device has an inside portion and an outside portion. The inside portion includes a first transponder and a second transponder. A first barrier is located between the first transponder and the second transponder. A second barrier is located between the first transponder and the second transponder in an outside portion of the wearable device.
US11100734B2
Provided are an electronic device and an operation method thereof. The electronic device may include: first and second antennas to receive a signal output by an external electronic device; a communication circuit configured to control the first antenna and the second antenna; and a processor. The processor may be configured to: receive the signal through the first antenna and the second antenna; measure a first distance between the first antenna and the external electronic device using the signal received by the first antenna; measure a second distance between the second antenna and the external electronic device using the signal received by the second antenna; determine a movement direction of the external electronic device based on a change in a difference between the first distance and the second distance; and perform a preset operation corresponding to the movement direction of the external electronic device. Other embodiments are also possible.
US11100732B2
A method of diagnosing a root cause for an exhibited vehicle failure, comprises initiating a vehicle health management (VHM) algorithm, repeatedly monitoring, at a specified time interval, the state of health (SOH) for at least one vehicle component, wherein the SOH for the at least one vehicle component is one of Green (normal operation), Yellow, and Red, calculating a number of consecutive Green SOH results for the at least one vehicle component, and providing an indication of likelihood that the at least one vehicle component is not a root cause of the exhibited vehicle failure based on the number of consecutive Green SOH results for the at least one vehicle component.
US11100729B2
Event-related information is acquired, and a judgment is made as to whether a particular event is detected. When a particular event is detected, direction information indicating a first direction is acquired, and first recognition result information is acquired as to a result of a recognition process as to an object located outside a vehicle. Furthermore, a judgment is made as to whether the first recognition result information includes a result of object recognition in the first direction and as to whether existence of a specific object in the first direction is detected. In a case where it is judged that the first recognition result information indicates that object recognition in the first direction is performed and existence of a specific object in the first direction is not detected, process completion information indicating that the vehicle has performed the recognition process in the first direction is generated and output.
US11100723B2
The present application provides a method of controlling a virtual image. The method may includes acquiring relative spatial position between a terminal device and an interaction device; generating the virtual image based on the relative spatial position, wherein the virtual image includes one or more user interface elements, and a superimposing position of each user interface element in a real space correspond to the interaction device; generating in advance and acquiring a rotational vector corresponding to the interaction device, determining a spatial position of the rotational vector in a virtual space based on the relative spatial position, wherein a direction indicated by the rotational vector may be fixed; and when the spatial position is located with a region corresponding to any user interface element in the virtual space, performing a corresponded control operation based on the user interface element corresponding to the region.
US11100720B2
In one implementation, a method of generating a depth map is performed by a device including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and a scene camera. The method includes generating, based on a first image and a second image, a first depth map of the second image. The method includes generating, based on the first depth map of the second image and pixel values of the second image, a second depth map of the second image.
US11100695B1
An exemplary character interaction system located at a first site receives character behavior data representative of captured behavior of a real-world performer located at a second site. Based on the character behavior data, the system presents, to an interactive user at the first site, a representation of a virtual character avatar that performs, in real-time synchrony with the real-world performer at the second site, the captured behavior of the real-world performer. During this presentation of the virtual character avatar, the system provides user video data representative of captured behavior of the interactive user for presentation to the real-world performer to allow the real-world performer to interact in real time with the interactive user via the virtual character avatar. The system also generates an augmented representation of an interaction between the virtual character avatar and the interactive user for presentation to a non-interactive observer. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11100694B2
A computing system and method to implement a three-dimensional virtual reality world with avatar eye movements without user eye tracking. A position and orientation of a respective avatar in the virtual reality world is tracked to generate a view of the virtual world for the avatar and to present the avatar to others. In response to detecting a predetermined event, the computing system predicts a point (e.g., the eye of another avatar) that is of interest to the respective avatar responsive to the event, and computes, according to an eye movement model, an animation of the eyes of the respective avatar where the gaze of the avatar moves from an initial point to the predicted point and/or its vicinity for a period of time and back to the initial point.
US11100687B2
In an implementation, a presentation program includes a hotspot feature that allows a point in a slide to be designated as a hotspot. Supplemental content may then be associated with the hotspot such that, when the hotspot is invoked in a slide presentation, the supplemental content is surfaced.
US11100682B2
To enable proper adjustment of a monitor using a color bar regardless of a difference in transfer functions. Provided is an image processing device including a determination unit configured to determine a transfer function related to conversion between light and an image signal and to be used in a display device among a plurality of transfer functions, and a generation unit configured to generate a color bar signal corresponding to the transfer function determined by the determination unit and output the generated color bar signal to the display device.
US11100681B2
In some embodiments, a computing system computes a palette-based color harmony and applies palette-based image recoloration by determining a color palette for the electronic image that includes a first image color at a first position on a color space and a second image color at a second position on a color space. The computing system applies a harmonic template using a combination of a global rotation angle and a secondary rotation angle, such that, the harmonic template, as applied, minimizes an aggregate of hue distances. The computing system modifies the color palette by moving at least one of (i) the first image color from the first position toward a position along a first axis of the harmonic template or (ii) the second image color from the second position toward a modified position along a second axis of the harmonic template. The computing system updates an editing interface.
US11100677B2
The disclosure is an information processing device including: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory and performing operations. The operations includes: generating, based on a target image including a target and a standard image not including the target, a target structure image indicating a shape feature of an object included in the target image and a standard structure image indicating a shape feature of an object included in the standard image, in each of a plurality of imaging conditions; calculating an individual difference being a difference between the target structure image and the standard structure image, and a composite difference based on the individual differences; calculating an individual smoothness being a smoothness of the target structure image, and a composite smoothness based on the individual smoothness; and generating a silhouette image of the target, based on the composite difference and the composite smoothness.
US11100664B2
The methods and systems described herein provide for depth-aware image editing and interactive features. In particular, a computer application may provide image-related features that utilize a combination of a (a) the depth map, and (b) segmentation data to process one or more images, and generate an edited version of the one or more images.
US11100660B2
An apparatus includes at least one processor configured to function as following units including a first difference extraction unit configured to extract a first difference between a plurality of images, an alignment unit configured to correct a position of an image with reference to a predetermined subject within the plurality of images, a second difference extraction unit configured to extract a second difference between the plurality of images after the position of the image is corrected by the alignment unit, and a detection unit configured to detect a moving object area based on the extracted first difference and the extracted second difference.
US11100656B2
Disclosed are computerized methods and systems for providing digital image data in which there appears a captured instance of a point of interest located within a coverage area of the systems. Exemplary systems may include at least one image repository gateway for accessing one or more image data repositories which may store digital image data of images and videos acquired from within the system coverage area. The system may also include an image scanning engine to search through and access image data from the one or more image data repositories in accordance with an image data search query, selecting stored images and videos with geolocation tags indicating a location within a spatial distance of a location parameter of the image date query. The system may perform image searches and retrievals based on manually defined search queries. The system may also include an Image search query generator configured to auto-generate an image data search query to find a moving subject appearing in a previously retrieved image, wherein the image data search query for finding and or tracking may be based on an auto-predicted route of the subject derived from a previously retrieved or selected image.
US11100655B2
An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a first region in which a foreground object is present with respect to a plurality of captured images, a retention unit configured to retain a first background image, a generation unit configured to generate a second background image based on portions of each of the plurality of captured images which are not detected as a first region, and an output unit configured to select one of the first background image and the second background image based on a property of the second background image, and configured to output, based on the selected background image and the first region, an image in which the foreground object is obscured.
US11100653B2
An image recognition apparatus is provided with: a divider configured to divide a frame image into a plurality of areas, wherein the frame image is obtained by imaging or capturing a scene outside through a window glass on which a wiper is mounted, from an interior of a moving body; a determinator configured to determine whether or not at least one of the wiper and an attached substance to the window glass appears, for each of the plurality of areas; an object detector configured to detect an object included in such an area of the plurality of areas that it is determined that the wiper and the attached substance do not appear; and a tracking device configured to track a tracking target, which is an object included in two or more frame images, on the basis of a detection result of the object detector.
US11100646B2
A method for generating a predicted segmentation map for potential objects in a future scene depicted in a future image is described. The method includes receiving input images that depict a same scene; processing a current input image to generate a segmentation map for potential objects in the current input image and a respective depth map; generating a point cloud for the current input image; processing the input images to generate, for each pair of two input images in the sequence, a respective ego-motion output that characterizes motion of the camera between the two input images; processing the ego-motion outputs to generate a future ego-motion output; processing the point cloud of the current input image and the future ego-motion output to generate a future point cloud; and processing the future point cloud to generate the predicted segmentation map for potential objects in the future scene depicted in the future image.
US11100644B2
Systems and methods for eye image segmentation and image quality estimation are disclosed. In one aspect, after receiving an eye image, a device such as an augmented reality device can process the eye image using a convolutional neural network with a merged architecture to generate both a segmented eye image and a quality estimation of the eye image. The segmented eye image can include a background region, a sclera region, an iris region, or a pupil region. In another aspect, a convolutional neural network with a merged architecture can be trained for eye image segmentation and image quality estimation. In yet another aspect, the device can use the segmented eye image to determine eye contours such as a pupil contour and an iris contour. The device can use the eye contours to create a polar image of the iris region for computing an iris code or biometric authentication.
US11100639B2
The present invention discloses a method for detecting skin conditions, and the method includes the steps of: capturing a skin image from a suspected subject; decomposing the skin image into an RBX image through RBX color-space transformation; and determining skin condition of the subject according to a parameter of a color model of the RBX image.
US11100632B2
A statistical learning technique that does not rely upon paired imaging information is described herein. The technique may be computer-implemented and may be used in order to train a statistical learning model to perform image synthesis, such as in support of radiation therapy treatment planning. In an example, a trained statistical learning model may include a convolutional neural network established as a generator convolutional network, and the generator may be trained at least in part using a separate convolutional neural network established as a discriminator convolutional network. The generator convolutional network and the discriminator convolutional network may form an adversarial network architecture for use during training. After training, the generator convolutional network may be provided for use in synthesis of images, such as to receive imaging data corresponding to a first imaging modality type, and to synthesize imaging data corresponding to a different, second imaging modality type.
US11100631B2
A surgical image acquisition system includes multiple illumination sources, each source emitting light at a specified wavelength, a light sensor to receive light reflected from a tissue sample illuminated by each of the illumination sources, and a computing system. The computer system may receive data from the light sensor when the tissue sample is illuminated by the illumination sources, determine a depth of a structure within the tissue sample, and calculate visualization data regarding the structure and its depth within the tissue. The visualization data may have a format for use by a display system. The structure may include vascular tissue. The illumination sources may include red, green, blue, infrared, ultraviolet, and white light sources. The structure depth may be determined by a spectroscopy method or a Doppler shift method. The system may include a controller and computer enabled instructions to accomplish the above.
US11100620B2
Embodiments relate to hue preservation post processing for highlight recovery of an input image. Intensity values for multiple color channels of a plurality of color channels of a pixel of the input image is determined using corresponding ratios of target hues for the plurality of color channels of the pixel, wherein the pixel has at least one color channel with an intensity above a predetermined threshold. A hue preserved value for a color channel of the plurality of color channels of the pixel is determined using intensity values determined for the plurality of color channels of the pixel and the target hues. A recovered version of the input image is generated by adjusting hue information of the pixel, using the hue preserved value for the channel of the plurality of color channels of the pixel.
US11100617B2
Proposed are a deep learning method and apparatus for the automatic upright rectification of VR content. The deep learning method for the automatic upright rectification of VR content according to an embodiment may include inputting a VR image, to a neural network and outputting orientation information of the VR image through a trained neural network.
US11100603B2
A controller is attached to a back face of a display device. The controller includes: a housing; a control unit removably accommodated in a slot formed in the housing and configured to control the display device; a backboard provided inside the housing on the interior side with respect to the direction of insertion of the control unit and connected to the control unit; and a second connector connected to a first connector provided for the display device to establish connection between the backboard and the display device.
US11100601B2
Vehicle dispatch system includes upper stage unit, lower stage unit and interface communication unit. The upper stage unit, configured to generate vehicle schedules, is communicatively connected to the interface communication unit. The lower stage unit, communicatively connected to the upper stage unit and the interface communication unit, has two storage units and a control unit. The first storage unit stores in a state representation multiple possible states having multiple possible actions. The control unit, which receives the schedule as a state representation, is configured to simulate states during an episode by selecting a state action and determining a reward value. The second storage unit stores the reward value and has a policy linked to one possible action for each state. The interface communication unit, operable to receive and transmit vehicle communications, is configured to access the policy and its associated action and communicate the action to a vehicle.
US11100598B2
Embodiments generally relate to providing litigation management for multiple remote content systems using asynchronous bi-directional replication pipelines. In some embodiments, a method includes retrieving, at one or more inbound replicators of one or more respective bi-directional pipelines, metadata associated with documents stored in one or more content repositories. The method further includes resolving, at a governance control hub, conflicts associated with legal holds on one or more of the documents based on the metadata. The method further includes sending conflict resolution results from one or more outbound applicators of the bi-directional pipelines to the content repositories, where the content repositories enforce legal holds on the documents.
US11100597B2
In some embodiments, a client driven referral management method may include: receiving the credentials of a member through a user device and a remote member through a user device; recording the consent of the member and the remote member to a referral fee agreement; associating a client with the member on the server when the client provides registration data to the server using a user device; recording real estate information browsing data and location data of the client with the user device of the client; assigning the remote member to the client, in which the remote member may be assigned by the server using the real estate information browsing data and location of client with the user device of the client; and notifying the member through a user device of the member of a real estate transaction involving the remote member and the client.
US11100594B1
A method for correlating energy usage data and water usage data to a waste scoring system is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving energy usage data and water usage data from a plurality of users, identifying at least one user group from the plurality of users based on predetermined parameters, and calculating average energy usage and average water usage for each of the user groups. The energy usage data and water usage data received for an individual user may then be compared to the calculated average energy usage and calculated average water usage for at least one of the user groups, and a general waste score may be calculated for the individual user. In some cases, a plurality of sub-waste scores may be calculated indicating factors of energy usage and factors of water usage for the individual user.
US11100593B2
A method for utilizing data analytics to identify unauthorized consumption of content comprises obtaining social network activity data from one or more social networks. The obtained social network activity data is analyzed to identify one or more users involved with content associated with a content provider. A determination is made as to whether or not the one or more users are authorized to access the content based at least in part on the analysis.
US11100586B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for pricing a callable instrument. A plurality of corresponding pairs of Brownian motion paths and index value paths are determined corresponding to a set of dates. A deep neural network (DNN) of a backward DNN solver is trained until a convergence requirement is satisfied by for each pair of corresponding Brownian motion path and index value path, using the backward DNN solver to determine by iterating in reverse time order from a final discounted option payoff to an initial value. A statistical measure of spread of a set of initial values is determined and parameters of the DNN are modified based on the statistical measures of spread. Pricing information is determined by the backward DNN solver and provided such that a representation thereof is provided via an interactive user interface of a user computing device.
US11100580B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for determining changes or revisions to a set of data and providing a user with a computerized graphical depiction of these changes through the use of multiple geometric shapes, the positioning of which shapes relative to one another and the size of which shapes relative to one another depict the changes to the user.
US11100579B1
Methods and systems for tracking a commodity. The systems and methods may receive commodity data and data regarding a market condition. The systems and methods may assign a financial value to an entity's commodity and communicate an alert to the entity upon the assigned financial value satisfying a predetermined condition.
US11100571B1
A banking system for associating an authorized payee with a customer account is described. The system includes a network interface, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive image data relating to a bill issued by a payee from a customer device via the network interface. The processor is further configured to perform optical character recognition of the image data. The processor is configured to extract a plurality of blocks of text from the image data. The processor is further configured to compare a first block of text of the image data to a database of known payees, wherein the first block of text relates to a name of the payee. The processor is configured to identify the payee from the database of known payees. The processor is further configured to associate the payee with the customer account.
US11100570B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for identifying product configurations that are alternatives to a requested product configuration, ranking the alternative product configurations based on one or more pricing metrics, and presenting the alternative product configurations to a prospective customer, thereby providing the customer with the option of selecting an alternative product configuration in lieu of the initially requested product configuration.
US11100562B2
Systems and methods for providing improved recommendations are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may be used for vehicle recommendations. The system may include a server system configured to receive user historical vehicle preferences, user vehicle preferences, generate weighted feature data sets, and apply a similarity model to the generated weighted feature data set in order to determine a vehicle recommendation data set. A visual representation of the vehicle recommendation data set may then be provided to an interface associated with a user.
US11100558B1
A recommendation service that utilizes a machine learning algorithm trained with association vectors is provided. To allow for filtering of unrelated items, a recommendation service generates vectors that represent a quantization of items within a browse node that are considered complementary or a substitute of a selected item. Using an association vector, a machine learning algorithm can be trained to determine whether a particular item recommendation is considered noise, complementary or a substitute. Thereafter, the recommendation service can utilize the trained machine learning algorithm to filter a set of recommendations to remove items considered to be noise or to prioritize items identified as complementary or a substitute.
US11100546B2
A system and method for tracking provenance for software use and development includes a developer toolkit program stored in memory and accessible by a software market place, the software marketplace providing a library of software bundles usable for software development and modification of the software bundles. The developer toolkit includes a user interface configured to enable software creation of original works and derivative works. The development toolkit further includes a provenance tracker configured to track provenance of the derivative works and original works wherein the provenance tracker makes the derivative work and the provenance of the derivative work available in the software market place. The provenance tracker includes a software bundle identification module configured to identify and verify ownership of the original works and derivative works by associating an owner of the derivative works and original works with features included in portions of the derivative works and original works.
US11100544B1
A service may create image-based reviews, which include minimal or no text, to assist customers in researching products. The reviews may include images sorted or grouped (e.g., by sentiment, by product review rating, by age of item, by number of uses, etc.). Images of items may be obtained by the service from user reviews and/or other sources. The images may be associated with text, such as at least some text from associated reviews, commentary, and/or other metadata. The images may be analyzed by a classifier to identify features in the visual image, such as a location of a particular item. The images may be categorized for use in one or more user interfaces that provide image-based item reviews. In some embodiments, the images may be arranged based on a number of uses of the item in the image or by an item age of the item in the image.
US11100542B2
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for programmatically generating and/or revising deal offers for a merchant based on one or more merchant self-service indicators. In providing such functionality, the system can be configured to, for example, facilitate registration and verification of merchant identities, monitor and analyze various deal offers for merchants with similar merchant self-service indicators, that enable the system to determine the relative successfulness of a deal offer for a merchant and/or category of merchant. In some embodiments, the system may be further configured to revise the deal offer programmatically and/or upon receiving the merchant's approval of the programmatically generated proposed edits to the deal offer.
US11100538B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for content presentation. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for a content item to be presented to a user; for a collection of content items, identifying one or more candidate content items including using image keywords derived from images associated with the user to identify the one or more candidate content items; selecting a content item responsive to the content request from the candidate content items; and sending the selected content item for presentation to the user.
US11100536B2
Methods and systems are described for providing advertising services to devices with a customized adaptive user experience based on adaptive algorithms. In one embodiment, a system includes a storage medium to store one or more software programs and an adaptive decision unit coupled to the storage medium. The adaptive decision unit includes or is coupled to processing logic that is configured to execute instructions of at least one adaptive decision algorithm to obtain data for different variables including at least two of an advertisement (ad) engagement history for a user, application (app) engagement history for the user, and in-app purchase engagement history for the user when making an ad selection decision. The at least one adaptive decision algorithm determines an ad selection decision for at least one relevant ad or ad content served in an engaging manner to a device of the user.
US11100532B1
In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, methods, systems, and media for generating predicted information related to advertisement viewability are provided.
US11100529B1
In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, methods, systems, and media for generating predicted information related to advertisement viewability are provided.
US11100526B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for providing auto-replenishment of an inventory of promotions. Auto-replenishment amounts and dates may be determined based on a variety of factors including current inventory, outstanding promotions, redemption ratios and redemption rates. Redemption ratios and redemption rates may be characterized based on provider information, consumer information, and/or promotion information. Auto-replenishment may result in a smoothed redemption curve and optimal impact to the provider.
US11100518B2
A system tracks user actions associated with advertisements. The system may receive information in response to a user action. The system may then determine whether the action performed by the user resulted from an advertisement.
US11100511B1
Application-based point of sale systems in mobile operating systems. A first application may generate a first URL directed to a second application, a parameter of the first URL comprising an identifier of the first application. A mobile operating system (OS) may access the first URL to open the second application. The second application may receive, from a server, a virtual account number (VAN). The second application may initiate a server on a port and generate a second URL directed to the first application, a parameter of the second URL comprising the port. The OS may access the second URL to open the first application. The first application may establish a connection with the server using the specified port and receive the VAN from the second application via the connection. The first application may autofill the VAN to a form field of a payment form in the first application.
US11100509B2
Systems and methods for authentication and authorization using physical computing cards include receiving from the physical computing card an authorization request, where the request includes a card identifier and an entity location. Authorized users associated with the card identifier are determined. Identifications of users with pending transactions at the entity location are obtained. Verification is performed by determining that there is a match between an identification of a user to an identification of one of the authorized users. The user is then authorized to access resources associated with the physical computing card.
US11100506B2
A system and method for programmatically revealing misleading confidence values in Fraud Score is presented to protect artificial intelligence models from adversarial neural networks. The method is used to reduce an adversarial learning neural network model effectiveness. With the score manipulation implemented, the adversary models are shown to systematically become less successful in predicting the true behavior of the Fraud detection artificial intelligence model and what it will flag as fraudulent transactions, thus reducing the true fraud dollars penetrated or taken by adversaries.
US11100501B1
The invention relates to systems and methods for providing modular and configurable smart contracts for blockchain applications. The smart contracts may be utilized to retain all transaction attribute values in a world state database of the blockchain-implemented ledger. The systems and methods can further provide for dynamically configurable validation metadata and validation rules for transaction attributes recorded on a blockchain transaction log. The validation metadata and validation rules corresponding to the transaction attributes can be dynamically updated and applied to the transaction attributes to validate or invalidate a transaction.
US11100500B2
A method includes receiving a request for registered payment options associated with a user computing device, where the request includes an identifier uniquely identifying one of the user computing device and the user. The method includes identifying one or more payment options associated with the device identifier, where each of the one or more payment options is associated with respective payment instrument information. The method includes providing one or more codes, where each code of the one or more codes identifies a respective payment option of the one or more payment options. The method includes receiving a first code of the one or more codes and transaction information. The method includes accessing, based upon the first code, payment instrument information associated with the payment option identified by the first code, and causing the processing of the payment instrument information in relation to a transaction identified by the transaction data.
